February, 2007
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Pages
- Langdon Miller
- Layli, Gil, Serena and Amira
- Natasha, Naysan, Evan and Jalil
- Some Introductions: Miller Parents
- The Pritchard Family
Categories
- General Family Talk (9)
- Gil, Layli & Serena (13)
- Langdon (2)
- Larry and Carole (2)
- Michael & Irene Miller (3)
- Natasha, Naysan, Evan & Jalil (4)
- The Preston-Martin Family (2)
Funerals Are Not Bad Things…
Posted on February 24th, 2007 by Larry.
Categories: The Preston-Martin Family, General Family Talk.
I confess to not being a funeral goer. Generally, I don’t like them and do my best to find an excuse for not being there. I understand the need to grieve, to share that grief and to bring closure to our relationship with the departed. But….I still avoid them.
I did attend the funderal of my aunt, Jean Preston Martin, not only out of respect, but because I believed it would serve as something of a family reunion, one of the things she liked the most. I appointed myself the official photographer and here I post a few of the photos, hopefully, happy memories, from the funeral. These are “thumbnails” that will go to fullsize when you click on them.
Inside St. Lawrence Basilica in Asheville.
At the gravesite:
Here are Jean’s children Ann, Tom, Lisa and Kathy
Dinner was a good occasion to renew family ties, as Jean would have wanted it.
Here is Lisa with two of her nephews, Jim Dubois and William Compton
I suppose to say “I am looking forward to the next funeral” would probably not be the right thing to say… but,
Larry Miller
Welcome to Family Talk
Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Larry.
Categories: The Preston-Martin Family, General Family Talk.
Irene Miller and Jean Preston Martin
Two weeks ago I attended the funeral of Jean Preston Martin, my aunt and my mother’s sister. During the last stage of Jean’s life one of her passions, along with my mother’s, was to bring the extended family together, to share news and create a genuine appreciation of the family history. Jean also initiated a family newsletter, “FamilyTalk”, hence the title of this blog. If you like, you can consider this in her honor.
The purpose of this blog is to serve as a location for sharing family photos, stories, and news of any sort. This blog is intended to replace what was the Miller Family web page. This will be a lot easier to maintain, make additions, comment on, etc.
So, I hope every one will feel free to contribute and comment.
You will notice on the right hand of the page both “Pages” and “Categories”. In case you are not familiar with blogs, the main section is a running chronicle. So the next entry will appear above, in chronological order. The Pages and Categories are ways of filing postings. I am filing under Pages, an introductory page on each individual family. Under Categories I am indicating when a post is about one particular family. You can, by clicking on a category, find all of the posts that are referenced under this topic. I hope that makes sense.
If you maintain a personal or professional blog and you would like me to add it to the “Blogroll” please let me know and I will do so.
If you go on an interesting vacation, if you have a new member of your family, or if you would like to add a post yourself, please simply send that to me (larry@millerfamily.org) and I will add it. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know.
Larry Miller