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| Prayers MUST be working...After a day spent in the ICU, my mother is getting to come home. They did not have to perform surgury of any kind, but instead will be prescribing meds to remedy/control the heart ailment. What a blessing! She had been told that she will have to modify her lifestyle, and that will be the most challenging part of this whole ordeal. Please put/keep/continue to pray for her and our family as we work through the next stages of our lives. Pacem,
Jim | | |
| The Saga Continues... As if losing the leading lady from my formative years isn't enough to deal with in the last week, now there is another new player in the game of life. My mother's heart.
Since coming up here to mourn the passing of her mother (my grandmother) a week ago, my mother has been admitted to the 'A' unit of the St. Elizabeth's Hospital ICU...heart attack. Ouch! She is being further tested today to find out if they can go in to do an angioplasty or if they'll have to crack her open for a full blown fix-em-up job. Please place/keep my family in your prayers for a Godly solution to the latest news, and for continued strength for all of us to deal with the situation. Be safe,
Jim | | |
|  Juanita Reincke
(February 11, 1928 - October 16, 2007) Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. today in the Irvin Funeral Home chapel in Centralia for Juanita Reincke, 79, of Centralia. The service will be followed by cremation, with final interment of cremains taking place at a later date. Visitation is this morning after 10 at the funeral home. Parish coordinator Darren Eultgen will officiate the services. Reincke died at 4:57 p.m. on Tuesday, October 16, at St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital in Centralia. She was born in Springfield on February 11, 1928, the daughter of Emil Weichert and Jeannette (Leaverton). In 1973, she moved to Centralia from Springfield. She retired from the Warren G. Murray Developmental Center, where she was the manager of the Recipient Resource Center. She was a member of the St. Mary's Catholic Church, a Toastmistress in Springfield, and in earlier years she was a leader of the Cub Scouts, as well as the Boy Scouts. Survivors include: sons, Joe Reincke and wife Wendy of Granite City and Jim Reincke and wife Debbie of Salem; daughters, Michelle Ellis and husband Terry of Carlyle and Deborah Kirkpatrick of Homestead, Florida; a sister, Mary Hemberger and husband Vernon of Pleasant Plains; a special friend, Linda Hixenbaugh of Centralia; grandchildren, Melissa Kirkpatrick, Marissa Logan, Christina Logan, Lyle Logan, Bessie Howell, and Debbie Jourdan; and 17 great-grandchildren. I miss you Gma. | | |
| An Excellent Lesson...In September of 2005, a social studies schoolteacher from Arkansas did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent, the principal, and the building supervisor, she took all of the desks out of the classroom. The kids came into first period, they walked in; there were no desks. They obviously looked around and said, "Where's our desks?"
The teacher said, "You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them."
They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."
"No," she said.
"Maybe it's our behavior."
And she told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."
And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the classroom. Second period, same thing. Third period. By early afternoon television news crews had gathered in the class to find out about this
crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom. The last period of the day, the instructor gathered her class.
They were at this time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room. She said, "Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn the desks that sit in this classroom ordinarily. Now I'm going to tell
you."
She went over to the door of her classroom and opened it, and as she did 27 U.S. veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those school desks in rows, and then they stood along the wall. By the time they had finished placing the desks, those kids for the first time I think perhaps in their lives understood how they earned those desks.
Their teacher said, "You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it for you. They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here responsibly, to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because they paid a price for you to have that desk, and don't ever forget it." | | |
| Hallelujah...SANJAYA IS GOING HOME! ...enough said. | | |
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