BOOK REVIEW: Leah Rampy’s “Earth and Soul”
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Our daily story in words and pictures
The interior of Colby United Methodist Church after the flower service and before the funeral service began. |
I am so grateful for my brother Harold, for the quiet care with which he served his family, community, church, and country. The love and respect which poured out for him as we gathered for the celebration of his life yesterday was awe inspiring. He clearly was trusted by people who lined up to ask for his carpentry skills to make their homes more livable, by the new recruits and the long time members and officers of the Kansas National Guard which he served for 41 years, by Jim Mardock the pastor of Colby United Methodist Church who clearly had lost not only a member of the church but a friend, by the family and people of the community who filled that church yesterday to remember his gifts to them. Harold did not demand respect and love, but in giving it to others it was returned to him. The care and precision which the veterans, soldiers and officers of the Kansas National Guard showed yesterday at the local cemetery out shown anything I've seen at similar services for veterans at Jefferson Barracks National Military Cemetery in St. Louis, MO. I am grateful for Harold Linville, September 3, 1931-- November 11, 2012.---Norm Linville