Dear Shirley,
The peaches are coming in now from the west. Just as they always do in late July and August.
But peach season will never be the same without Donna McEnroe. She carefully tended the crust, the filling. And it was her great pleasure to serve it lovingly to friends and family.
They buried Donna Tuesday after a huge funeral at United Lutheran Church in Grand Forks - a place she so dearly loved. She left behind a legacy of love for family and many friends.
I know you met Donna and George when you and Frank would come up here years ago.
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This is quite a week. We had a storm blow through here Monday night with winds so wild the rain was coming sideways. I managed to make it home and hunkered down with Dot.Com, the dachshund, when they put out a tornado warning.
I heard the sirens and I kept my ear on KNOX radio and an eye on the television.
I don’t suppose you have many wild nights like that in Tucson.
Do you still do your banking at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson? We started in with Valley Bank when we first came to Grand Forks in 1957. Then it turned into Bremer in 1993, and I have been dealing with that bank ever since. I came to know Barb Belt, a personal banker, who is retiring this week.
Time marches on! Barb started out at Valley Bank after she finished up at Aaker’s Business College here in 1963. She’s been a personal banker at Bremer for years. And now she is heading down that golden road of retirement.
Knowing her, she will be doing volunteer work. She already has given 10 gallons to the blood bank.
I’m not sure, but I suppose she has some money in the bank. I am sure the interest she has raised on her four daughters is eight grandkids and two great grandkids.
I hope you are keeping your cool down there in Tucson. We are enjoying a few warm breezes here.
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Love from your sister, Marilyn, picking falling branches off the grass and hunting for Mr. Goodbars on the west bank of the Red River of the North.
P.S. I saw a friend at Donna’s funeral who said they sometimes have Goodbars over at 4000 Valley Square. Not quite sure where. I couldn’t find any for love nor money around here last week.
P.P.S. The Shirleys are coming out of the woodwork again. We are planning to have a bunch of them at our second annual Shirley Luncheon. This year it is at Whitey’s at noon on Thursday, Aug. 14.
