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THE AIR FORCE
The Ice Road Truckers, especially the Polar Bear
A fresh pot of coffee, and she also liked it to be announced, i.e., "I’m makin a fresh potta coffee!"
candy and chocolates
Butterfinger candybars, bridge mix
Frank Lloyd Wright
Clydesdales
Tyrone Power
bright red lipstick
The movie "Dave"
babies
corn chowder soup
Intimate perfume
Excedrin Migraine headache formula
good books
The movie "GIANT"
James Dean
little presents, goodies
Gallivanting
Aquanet© hairspray in the PINK can
Waiting for me in the car while I did the shopping and watching for me to return to the car
bobby pins (black)
Cinerama
Todd A-O
St. Louis
Caramel-Pecan corn, Screaming Yellow Zonkers
Sean Connery
Gold Bond powder
Pontiacs (her grandson’s initials are GTO)
The 1955 Oldsmobile Starfire
Mountain Dew
Little birds
"2001," "King of Kings," "Richard Diamond Private Eye,"
holly, drawing holly
Netflix©
David Janssen
Twin Peaks
The music of Angelo Badalamente (theme to Twin Peaks)
felt tip pens
honey peanut butter
Animal planet
dogs, especially Keeshond(en) and Labradors
Cats, especially Tatiana and Starfire
horses
kittens
animals in general, actually
The LST
Rob Lowe
‘Tom Cullen,’ "M-O-O-N, that spells Mom"
GREATER TUNA
GALAXY QUEST
STAR TREK
I CLAUDIUS (AKA "I, Clav Divs")
home-baked cookies
COFFEE
DANISH
donuts
when I was home for any reason at all
barbecue
Shepard Smith on Fox News
Vanilla ice cream
Andrea Bocelli
A little kitty named Tatiana and BIG kitty named Starfire
Stouffer's stuffed green peppers
bacon and tomatoes
cats sleeping next to her and on her lap
She loved puddin' pops, paper, art supplies, writing, drawing, whenever anyone showed appreciation of her talents...
knitting. doing needlepoint
cooking (before she became unable to stand up for more than a few minutes at a time)
Her cell phone
Art Supplies Stores
Fabric Stores
New pens!
Pringles, Cheetos
Pirouettes, York peppermint patties
Fresh ice from the freezer and the nifty ice dispenser on the fridge
Her pharmacist Tom, aka St. Tom
Mike Holmes, the contractor who would get upset at shoddy work on his show Holmes on Holmes
Phyllis Ripplemeier at the Posey County Humane Society
and the Vanderburgh County Humane Society because they took over intake for Posey County
The Solarium Restaurant in Tucson
The Red Geranium in New Harmony
Squaw Peak, Camelback Mountain, Picacho Peak and South Mountain - she called Picacho Peak "John Wayne Mountain" and South Mountain in Phx "Mothership Mountain" because of all the transmitter towers
Laughing
Being able to make someone laugh at something truly funny, not mercy laughter.
We kids are entirely different, we’ll take a mercy laugh.
The Local on the 8s
Flowers - Gardens - any living plant that could be made to be beautiful and fragrant
Animal Precinct and especially Officer Anne Marie Lucas
What Dreams May Come
Greater Tuna
Law Order Criminal Intent
Men in Black
SCRABBLE
Eukanuba© Dog Show
Active-On© pain reliever
Cover Girl© #610 pressed powder
Phoenix
Soft, warm blankets fresh from the dryer that had been exposed to Snuggle fabric softener
POST- ITS
White-Out
Looking her best
Puffs©
Fresh paper and new pens
Creating her own "fonts"
Having a kitty on her lap, snoring
Having her cell phone ring
Cards and letters
Her memories of the zany time that was early Television
Her family and friends
The Dean Koontz Newsletter
Dean Koontz had a pet golden retriever named Trixie who recently passed away. She was a retired companion dog from CCI. I would like to think that Trixie has met Mom and that she is accompanying Mom along with Mom’s beloved pets and cousins and other loved ones.
Mom was not a "fundamentalist," but Mom believed fervently in God and in Jesus. She believed that Jesus was the Son of God. She believed in life beyond this life and in the eternal life of the soul.
Mom adamantly emphasized the importance of her memorial service being a time of joy, celebration and happy sharing of memories, stories and jokes.
"An audience at a memorial service is a captive audience and they’ll be very receptive to any humor whatsoever, so be sure you use good material."
Any sobbing should be quickly followed by the antidote of a joke or a funny story, she said. "You can cry later," she reasoned, "But by then, the laughter will have quelled the need."
(Yes. She used words like quell.)
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