[or-roots] Family tragedy

[Kevin & Shirlee Johnson]

Dear Friends,

I am sending this to several of you to inform the website of a tragedy in our family. While Kevin was mowing the lawn on Friday evening he suffered an aneurysm and died several hours later. This is a total shock for all of us as he was very active and physically fit. He was known for his kindness and always being available to help out. 

I know that he had been trying to get removed from this website for some time now, but unsuccessfully. I would like to ask if someone would call the website person and ask that we be taken off of the website. I will be so busy in the next few weeks that I will not be able to do this.

Very respectfully yours,

Shirlee Johnson

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: maxine cunningham 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 9:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Cooleys/was "squabble".


  I have Cooley's Irises, Sorry it I wasn't clear.  They are in full bloom on Mother's Day here, I have plenty of visitors at the time of their best blooming season. One year, a couple older ladies, got out of their car with their little shovels and was going to help themselves. When I saw they had what they had come after, I went out and ask what they were doing,  Their reply, "Oh we knew your Dad and we just knew you wouldn't mind."  Well that was the best Irises that I did not give away, because those ladies give me something, that all the digging in old records will never reveal. Childhood stories of my father. Things that make the genealogy fun and come alive.
  Maxine  

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Magbatt at aol.com 
    To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
    Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:03 PM
    Subject: Re: [or-roots] Cooleys/was "squabble".


    Maxine,  

    You said your roses were from Cooleys.  As in the Brownsville Cooleys?   Every time my sister and I go into the Brownsville Museum and the volunteers in there hear us laughing, they say they can always tell when descendants of Capt Blakely or the Cooleys are in there because they  LAUGH all the time.  As I recall there was a lot of interaction between the two families.  Weren't they partners is a general store or something?  I have it somewhere, but I'll bet Cecil will jump out of the shadows and tell us from right off the top of his head!
    <G>   Thanks,  Midge
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