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If you recall, Bob and I were to attend a birthday party yesterday afternoon for Marilyn, the Methodist minister in Independence. Well, we did attend and had a very nice time and visited with a lot of their parishioners.
The funny thing was, though, that Jack had asked me to delete Marilyn's name when I sent out the e-mail invitation to the Independence ministers. I did that.
Yesterday I asked Marilyn if it was a surprise for her and she said, "no". She said Jack had e-mailed someone to tell them why he could
not do something with them from 3 - 5 that afternoon, and he forgot
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to delete her name from the list and she read the e-mail.
I thought it was so funny that he did exactly what he warned me
not to do. That first picture is Marilyn in the blue dress with her arm around a friend.
The second picture is Marilyn's cake table. her daughters who
live in Iowa sent the yellow roses with cards expressing their
love for their mom.
The third picture is a table Jack had had done for her with all her
pictures, their wedding pictures, and even high school diploma
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and her college graduation. All kinds of great mementos were
there on display.
What a great gesture. Jack must have really worked on getting this surprise arranged. The church secretary, Chris, helped a lot and many of her friends as well.