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| 1997 was the most difficult year of my life. In that year our combined families said goodbye to the most family members of any year that I can remember. * * * * * * * * * * On February 11, Gerald Lee Wimberly died of cancer in Amarillo, Texas. Gerald is the son of Vernon Leroy Wimberly and Ione Goode. He is the grandson of Titus Abbey Wimberly and Viola Humphrey. He is my first cousin. * * * * * * * * * * On August 11, Eunice Ann Pike Combs died in Indianapolis, Indiana. Eunice is the daughter of Oliver Pike and Ellen Marksberry. She is the wife of James Van Combs. She is my husband's aunt. * * * * * * * * * * On September 7, Patricia Jean Baird Smith died of cancer in Bowie, Texas. Patricia is the daughter of Thomas Charles Baird and Mandy Ellen Pike. She is the wife of George Edward Smith. She is my sister-in-law, my husband's sister. * * * * * * * * * * On September 20, Homer Allen Wimberly died of cancer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Homer is the son of Titus Abbey Wimberly and Viola Humphrey. He is my uncle, my father's brother. * * * * * * * * * * |
| December 1997 On December 2, Pauline Martha Caywood Wimberly died peacefully in her sleep in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is the daughter of Joe L. Caywood and Sarah Lillie Chasteen, wife of William Taylor Wimberly, and my mother. * * * * * * * * * * On December 25, (Christmas day) Jacob Edward Baird, Clifford James Campbell and Roy Lee Byerly II died in a terrible car accident on highway 380 just east of Decatur, Wise County, Texas. * * * * * Jacob is the son of William Charles Baird and (me) Barbara Evelyn Wimberly Baird. * * * * * Clifford is the son of Patricia Ann Sanford Campbell and Edwin Campbell. * * * * * Roy Lee is the son of Kimberly Sue Sanford Byerly and Roy Lee Byerly. Jacob was 22 years old, Clifford 14 years old, and Roy Lee 10 years old. Clifford and Roy Lee are the grandsons of Patricia Jean Baird Smith and George Edward Smith. * * * * * * * * * * |
| A memorial page for Jacob Baird was created by Dorothy Caywood/McEntire Please feel free to view this along with her other memorial pages. * * * * * * * * * * |
| * * * * * * * * * * But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. I Thessalonians 4:13-18 * * * * * * * * * * |
| updated 07/12/2003 |
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| Background music "The Teardrops Fell" |
| If you have lost a child please look at Mothers With Angels This site provides links to support groups for grieving parents. * * * * * * * * * * |
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