Minnehaha Rebekah Lodge No 77 along with Blumen Hermanas Theta Rhos Girls Club No 28
Planted a Lilac Tree on May 18, 2007 for our Living Legacy month in Odd Fellowship.
This tree was planted in loving Memory of our lodge brother & sisters son Christopher McCoy
who passed away November 2006 from Ewings Sarcoma Bone Cancer at 17 yrs old.
You Are Our Hero Chris
Christopher J. McCoy
February 28, 1989 - November 12, 2006
I'm Free
Don't grieve for me for now I'm free
I'm following the path God laid for me
I took his hand when I heard Him call
I turned my back and left it all.
I could not stay another day,
To laugh, to love, to work or play
Tasks left undone must stay that way,
I found that peace at close that day.
If my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joy,
A friendship shared a laugh a kiss,
Ah, yes , these things I too shall miss.
Be not burdened with times of sorrow;
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow,
My life;s been full, I've savered much;
Good friends, good times, a loved one's touch.
Perhaps my time seemed all to brief;
Don't lengthen it now with undue grief,
Lift up your hearts and share with me;
God wanted me now; He's set me free.
Minnehaha Rebekah Lodge No. 77 & Ben Hur Odd Fellow Lodge No. 870
together planted a flowering crabapple tree on April 22,2006 for our
Living Legacy month in Odd Fellowship.
This tree was planted in Loving Memory of Jamie Smith
a teenager who passed away from injuries
substained in an automobile accident on March 17,2005
Jamie Lynn Smith
May 1987 -November 2005
God saw she was getting tired
And a cure was not to be;
So He put His arms around her
and whispered "Come with Me"
With tearful eyes we watched her suffer,And saw her fade away;
A golden heart stopped beating,
Hard working hands to rest;
God broke our hearts to prove to us; He only takes the best.
