Grandma Sprick had just a couple of weeks to live in winter 1986 when Uncle Joe wisely helped her celebrate her 100th birthday a little early. He and Alverna were both present when she peacefully passed away at the Millers' in Old Frontenac.
The scrapblog editor likes this snippet of poetry, which she used to start a 2/17/07 Star Tribune story about a dying woman: "You few who understand know that when death is near, the food you give your soul must be supreme." -- Semonides (Greek poet, 7th century B.C.)
News and history from the Minnesota (Claus/Maria Augustine) Sprick and (William "Brother"/Alverna) Miller families. This scrapblog celebrates our best qualities and honors characters, oops, we mean CHARACTER. Your comments are welcome at pamelamarianmiller@gmail.com. (We've limited comments on the site itself because of spam.) Don't forget to click on "Older posts" at the bottom of the pages to see more postings. Longer documents are at www.thesprickfamilypapers.blogspot.com.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Listening for the angels
Grandma Sprick had just a couple of weeks to live in winter 1986 when Uncle Joe wisely helped her celebrate her 100th birthday a little early. He and Alverna were both present when she peacefully passed away at the Millers' in Old Frontenac.
The scrapblog editor likes this snippet of poetry, which she used to start a 2/17/07 Star Tribune story about a dying woman: "You few who understand know that when death is near, the food you give your soul must be supreme." -- Semonides (Greek poet, 7th century B.C.)
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