by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 6, 2022 | marriage, memories
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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 6, 2022 | memories, pets
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...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 4, 2022 | memories
I spent most of my school years living just a block from a train track… We didn’t have lot of trains running through our small Georgia town, but it is still memorable. There was an afternoon train I recall Snd the engineer would through wrapped small...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 24, 2022 | memories, time
I grew up in a home in which an antique family mantel clock chimed the quarter hours and counted each hour for us day and night. My Daddy was the one who kept it wound each week. It was a steady and comforting sound for me growing up. Bill bought me a Westminster...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | Career, family, memories
3/10/2017 Bill and I had a conversation over lunch with our eldest granddaughter, age “almost 20” about the movie “Silence” and about theological implications of persevering in the faith, apostasy, being used by God in the most difficult of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | family, memories
3/10/2013 Middle grand girl, Haley has a volleyball tournament at Bay High today. With her parents out of town, I took her down at 7:00 a.m. We turned into the parking lot and I hear, “Uh oh. I forgot my shoes…” Me: “Shall we go back and get...
