[Dialogue] Joe & Sandra Clift add to Dialogue

[Joe Clift]

Jann,

Thanks for the welcome and the memory of Houston. I do not remember the
occasion of your father's death and me showing up at the service. But thanks
for the story. I will cherish it as a part of our journey together.

Joe Clift
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> Welcome to the Clifts from Jann McGuire!  I almost wrote yesterday to say
I
> thought you were in the Houston house at the time my father, Joe B. Hale,
died
> in July, 1972.  Fred and I and our children were in Fifth City.  We drove
to
> Stamford, Texas, for the funeral.  The burial was in the family farm
cemetery
> out in the country from Sagerton, which is basically a ghost town.  Poor
Joe
> was assigned to represent the Order at the funeral and had, I'm sure, a
very
> difficult time finding it at the end of a more-or-less 500-mile drive.  He
did
> find the cemetery, though I can't imagine how.  My family, all either
totally
> un-churched (like my dad) or from the "non-instrumental" Church of Christ
(like
> my mom,) couldn't imagine who this was, showing up in a clerical collar.
I've
> thought of you many times, Joe, and appreciated so much that long hot
drive
> you made to be present.  It meant a lot to me.  Would love to hear (I
think)
> what you remember of that occasion.
>
> Jann McGuire
>
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