Most Dearly Beloved<\/p>\n
Mourn me not when I have left this earthly place\u2014for I have enjoyed each precious hour and day and season\u2014the first sign of spring, summers\u2019 warmth, birdsong, nighttime sounds, mourning awakenings, autumns\u2019 glow, and winter sunsets, first snowfalls.<\/p>\n
My riches were boundless. Beloved parents who gave me all that made me worthwhile\u2014an undeserved, but patient, kind and noble man to be my spouse\u2014a sweet and gentle brother to love, respect and cherish through all the years\u2014three precious, honorable, stalwart, thoughtful and loving sons\u2014each unique and marvelous\u2014each God\u2019s special gift to me from the day they were born. My fringe benefits along with all else\u2014the loyal, loving, understanding, friends of youth and later years.<\/p>\n
I ask only happy memories that all of us have shared\u2014and that a prayer be said for me in springtime\u2014near flowing brooks and frothy streams\u2014at sunsets, at moonrise\u2014when lilacs bloom after summer rainfall\u2014now and then at eventide when daily tasks are done\u2014on Christmas Eve perhaps\u2014on Easter moon\u2014whenever soft winds rustle the leaves-when stars come out and always when church bells ring\u2014when trees grow tall and nearly touch the clouds.<\/p>\n
Contentment, peace and happiness have been mine and God has been so good to me with joy and laughter in greater measure than tears.<\/p>\n
Love each of you ad infinitum.<\/p>\n
Betty Ann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most Dearly Beloved Mourn me not when I have left this earthly place\u2014for I have enjoyed each precious hour and day and season\u2014the first sign of spring, summers\u2019 warmth, birdsong, nighttime sounds, mourning awakenings, autumns\u2019 glow, and winter sunsets, first snowfalls. My riches were boundless. Beloved parents who gave me all that made me worthwhile\u2014an … Continue reading “From Mom’s Book, Please Delay Departure”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,53],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-that","tag-betty-ann-fisher","tag-please-delay-departure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ulss-rC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disneybear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disneybear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disneybear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disneybear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disneybear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disneybear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disneybear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disneybear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disneybear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}