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Summer Favorites

Summer Favorites

In 1978, the summer before Hurricane Fredrick hit the Alabama Gulf Coast in September 1979, Bill and I and our kids vacationed on the lagoon in Gulf Shores at the home of Katherine and R.L. Musgrove, along with their son, Pete, and several other Musgrove family...
Learning To Pray With Bill

Learning To Pray With Bill

One thing people commented on regarding my husband, Bill, after his death in 2020 was about Bill’s quick and seemingly comfortable practice of praying with others….. Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will...

Double Grief

The Boyd Boys- sons of William Nicky and Annie Elma Boyd- circa 1933. L to R- Cecil (deceased 2003), Hilly (deceased 2013) and Dempsey (deceased 2012). I can imagine them sitting together in the shade somewhere in heaven in aluminum lawn furniture as they did as young...

Always Remembered….

From August 6,2020    Evening announcement: Bill Byrd, my beloved partner in life and ministry, quietly and gently surrendered his spirit and soul to the loving arms of the Lord at 5:00pm today. Very peaceful. His children and grandchildren gave him a tender send off...

Remembering …… Two Years After

A memory from August, 6, 2021, the first anniversary of Bill’s death;   This was our little Daisy beagle. She was adopted by our daughter’s family in 2014 and was about 3 years old, having been rescued in Mississippi by a beagle rescue organization. They...