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Daddy used to say that when
most people ask, “How’re you
doin’?" they don’t really care.
It’s just something they say to
make conversation.
The same undoubtedly goes
for the most famous lines deliv¬
ered when sad times hit. “If
there’s anything you need, just
let me know” or “If there’s
anything I can do, just give me
a call.”
After my niece Nicole
encountered a challenging preg¬
nancy that would put her on
complete bed rest for months,
she drew her own conclusions.
“I have learned that the people
who truly mean it, don’t just say
it. They say it and then they do
it without asking. They show up
on your doorstep with food or
to announce they’re taking the
children on a play date.”
My favorite example of
Nicole’s helpers was her friend,
Stephanie, who showed up one
day and asked, “What can I do
to help?” Nicole promptly put
her to work, cleaning out her
pantry. The ailing mama-to-be
sat at the kitchen table, put her
feet up and directed Stephanie
as to what should be thrown out
and what could stay.
Adamson - Saunders
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Rev. and Mrs. Jimmy
Adamson of Bainbridge,
Georgia, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Amy
Caroline, to Shane Saunders of
Moultrie, Georgia.
The bride-elect is the grand
daughter of Mrs. Helen Giles
and the late Mr. Alva Giles, Jr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Scott,
and the late Charles Adamson
all of Fort Valley, Georgia.
Miss Adamson is a 2005
graduate of Bainbridge High
School and will graduate in May
OBITUARIES—
C arolyn ,/. Summerall
May5, 1939-March 31,
2009
BARTOW FL - Carolyn Jo
Cummings Summerall, age
69, original native of Fort
Valley, Georgia, died March
31, 2009 at home of heart
failure.
Carolyn was born in
Pineview, GA on May 5,
1939 to James G. and Euphie
(Adams) Cummings.
Carolyn moved to Bartow
from Mulberry two years
ago.
Carolyn was a devoted
Christian, wife and mother.
Carolyn was a member of
Okeechobee Church of God.
Carolyn is . survived by
daughter, Glenda Henry,
Bartow FL; son, Jim
Summerall, Mulberry FL,
Alva Summerall, Lakeland,
FL; brother, James Byron
Cummings, Fort Valley,
GA; sisters Janell Martin,
Fort Valley, GA, Bessie Jane
Cook, Calhoun, GA, Janie
Lou Carney, Fort Valley, GA.
Continued to page 6
“You had her clean out your
pantry?” I asked with a shake
of my head and a chuckle.
“Boy, you’re got this down to
a science.”
Nicole shrugged. “She wanted
to help and that mess in the
pantry was driving me crazy.
She didn’t mind at all. She sin¬
cerely wanted to help.”
Of course, 1 am certainly not
one to be making ill judgments.
I have done the same. When
Mama died, the outpouring of
love and support was enormous.
For two nights of visitation, a
thousand people filed through
the funeral home to offer their
condolences. After the typical
expression of sympathy, inevi¬
tably would come the words,
“If there’s anything I can do to
help, just let me know."
I would always reply,
“Do you bush hog?”
. The sincere need for
bush hogging is a constant in
my life. I am always worried
about getting the land around
my house properly mowed and
cut down. So, I figured I would
take the time when everyone
was feeling sympathetic toward
me to ask for what troubled me
most. See, you have to move
while the sympathy factor is
high. If you wait a day or two
too long, you’ll be slap out of
luck and goodwill.
My brother-in-law, Rodney,
after overhearing this ques¬
tion several times, came over,
squeezed my elbow tightly and
grinned. “Stop asking every¬
body to bush hog for you.”
“Well, they all say if there’s
anything I need to let ’em
know.”
“They don’t mean bush
hogging, dummy.”
from Valdosta State University
with a Bachelor of Science in
Nursing degree,
The groom-elect is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Saunders
of Moultrie, Georgia. He is the
grandson of Mr James Cook
and the late Mrs. Doris Cook
of Moultrie, Georgia, and
Mrs. Faye Saunders of Perry,
Georgia, and the late Mr. J.C.
Saunders.
Mr. Saunders is a 2005 grad
uate of Colquitt County High
School in Moultrie, Georgia. He
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“But bush hogging is what
I need. I don’t need any cas¬
seroles. I’ve got plenty of cas¬
seroles.”
He rolled his eyes comically,
shrugged and gave up. The next
person who came through the
line was my childhood friend,
Jerry, who helps to run his fam
ily’s big dairy farm a couple
of miles from my place. Our
friendship goes back so far
that we were in the hospital
nursery together. He was bom
the day before I was and his
dad kept my daddy company in
the waiting room while Mama
labored with me. It is an old and
fine friendship.
I hugged Jerry and he looked
at me sadly. He knows the
pain of losing both parents.
Solemnly, he said, “If there’s
anything you need...” Before he
could finish, I jumped in.
“You have a bush hog, don’t
you?” I grinned, I knew I had
found the one to help me.
He looked puzzled. “Yeah.”
“Well, I need some bush
hogging done.”
He shook his head. “I, uh, I
don’t know about that.”
“Jerry.” I looked pitiful and
sad.
He chuckled. “Call me.”
So I did and he did.
Obviously, he was one of the
people who really meant it when
he said, “If there’s anything you
need, just call.”
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is curretly pursuing mechani¬
cal engineering degree at the
Georgia Institute of Technology
in Atlanta and is employed at
Phoenix Engineering and
Consulting, Inc. of Woodstck,
Georgia.
Thw wedding will take place
on Saturday, May 23, 2009
at 1:30p.m. at Temple Baptsit
Church in Moultrie, Georgia.
A reception will follow the
ceremony at Sundown Farms
Plantation. Friends and family
are invited to attend.
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r[ i -atm By Faye Jones
Tribune Columnist
Another whirlwind week at
the homestead. We’re going
to “git ‘er done” for sure this
week. On Monday, April 6, I
had my second operation for
breast cancer. The doctor said
he wanted to make sure all the
margins were clear and added
he didn’t want to see me in his
office again. Sounds like a
plan to me. They have a funny
looking gizmo implanted in the
hole where the cancer used to
be. Don’t know the name of
the apparatus but it looked like
a catheter with a balloon on the
end. My radiation treatments
will be given through it.
Fun thing about the treat¬
ments that start on the 13th
is that I have to go to Macon
twice a day to take the radia¬
tion. Wouldn’t you just know
they don’t have the machine
needed for my case in Warner
Robins or Perry? I can hardly
to go to the Medical Center
twice a day.
My full-skeleton MRI was
“beautiful,” my back doctor
said, and he added that the
cancer had not metastasized.
Good news indeed. Can’t wait
to get this behind me. I have
had enough down time during
which I have dreamed of a
thousand things I want to do
when I get well.
I feel so very fortunate to have
had the support of my peers,
my neighbors and friends. My
freezer is almost full of home¬
made TV dinners and about
every other day someone comes
with another surprise. I’m for¬
getting how to cook and I do
it i
Camden Eugene Sanders
Amy Sanders and Brett
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birth of a son, Camden Eugene
Sanders, born at Houston
Medical Center on March 25,
2009. Grandparents of the baby
are Bobby & Rhonda Wright of
Lakeland, Fla. and F. Ronnie
& Susan Sanders of Warner
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take kindly to being spoiled.
I am also so very thankful
that medical science has come
so far. This cancer thing is
nothing to play with and it is
certainly a sobering disease.
We have lost so many family
members to this dread foe. My
heart goes out to anyone who
has walked through this valley
of the shadow of death. None
of us can make it alone.
If I had a say-so in this dying
thing, I would choose to just
drop over while pulling weeds.
I don’t want to get sick and die.
All the doctors have assured
me I will be around a few more
years just to make my friends
and family miserable.
The advances in medicine
have come so far. When my
grandfather had cancer between
his nose and lip, the doctors
gave him a salve for it. When
mother had a skin cancer, the
doctor placed a tiny piece of
radium on it and held it in
place with tape. It stayed on a
few hours and then he removed
it. I’ll bet some of these new
doctors would think those
healing methods never existed.
However, they are right up top
with some of our other home
cures.
As children when we got
“sore eyes” from gnats in the
summer, mother grated an
Irish potato, rolled the pulp in
a piece of sheeting (we didn’t
have store-bought bandages)
and tied the poultice around our
heads while the starchy pulp
ran into our eyes. Oh, it was not
a happy thing to have our eyes
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covered for an hour.
Of course there were count¬
less remedies for cold and
croup. One sign of a cough and
grandma was there in hand with
a sugar cube with three drops of
kerosene on it. After that it was
rock candy and a tablespoon of
whiskey. That was followed
by honey and lemon juice. By
the time she finished her phar¬
maceutical offerings we were
good and well. It’s a wonder we
didn’t die from her cures.
We spent a lot of time chewing
roots of grandma’s choice and
drinking concoctions made
from baric. This goes along
with being an Indian, I think.
She only raised four of her
10 children so I don’t know
whether or not she fared well in
the medical field.
It was about this time of
year that my mother began her
spring cleaning of our bodies.
She gave each of us an orange
with a hole in it. She filled
the hole with castor oil and
made us suck the orange. Oh,
gag, gag! After the effects of
the “orange juice” we had to
chew two cream of tartar. Now
you talk about something that
would lock your jaws! Have
mercy, those tablets were the
size of a quarter and sourer
than anything else on earth, we
thought.
With* our spring cleaning
done, we were good to go for
the summer. Funny how we
grew up to be so healthy.
Have a blessed week. Meet
somebody new and do some¬
thing for somebody old.
Tobey Jackson Griggs
Miranda Griggs and Jason
Griggs of Fort Valley announce
the birth of a son, Tobey Jackson
Griggs, bom at Houston Medical
Center on March 27, 2009.
Grandparents of the baby are
Rob Griggs of Warner Robins,
Harriett “Jenny” Harrison of
Warner Robins and Mario &
Carolyn Salinas of Columbus,
Ind.
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