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Sherrie
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Dianne and Sandy Fox
"We are so sorry to here about our cousin Alvin. He was a wonderful person and ma"
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Ronald & Teresa Arrington
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Lex and Kathy Adkins(Kathy is Alvin's first cousin}
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Sherrie
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Robyn Riddle
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Beverly Haney
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A Grandson's "Talk"

Never forget our first "man to man" talk. I was young, he came in grandmas kitchen said "Josh getcha shoes on. I need help in the garden".. ok for people that don't know about pawpaws famous garden... just picture in your mind a very famous beautiful painting.. with all these different tones of green and yellow and red. I mean it was a true work of art. And for him to let me help him with this work of art. O man, to me this was huge. I mean this was up there with dad teaching me how to trout fish. Well long story short he said, "Josh I need a row of potatoes dug." I looked at him, and said yes sir of course. By this time I was about to bust with excitement. I started digging and I did't stop until I ran out of potatoes to dig. OK keep in mind he said only said one row. I was so happy to be helping him in his work of art that kinda forgot about that last part lol... But pawpaw being pawpaw never, raised his voice never got mad about it. He looked at me smiling ear to ear and said son you just dug ever tater in the whole garden. I was so upset I did't do it right.. I hung my head down as low as it possibly would go without it falling off. He said son look at me if you remember anything I teach you always remember 3 things. #1 Keep the Lord in your life. #2 Don't ever forget where you came from "your family". #3 And always keep that head up .. the past is in the past. Keep looking forward .. he also said joking around you stick with me I'll teach you some stuff. But little did he know that's exactly what I would do .. I stuck right by his side coming up. If I could only be half the man paw paw was... boy I would be doing good. Love you pawpaw. Joshua Hart
Posted by Sherrie Gosnell
Wednesday February 27, 2013 at 9:33 am
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