The Prettiest Girl I’ve Ever Seen
When we were gathered together telling family stories the other day, I asked Sara what she remembered about her childhood. Sara said one of her earliest memories was when she was about two or three years old at the old house at Park Place. She said her mama, Fannie Mae would hold her up to the window to her friends as they walked by and would say, “Look how pretty she is today.” She also remembers her Mama taking her to her sister, Mary Ruth’s house and showing her off in one of her dresses and saying, “Look now she has a red V for victory on her dress because the war is over.” Her brothers, Ed and Randy said they remember Sara beating up all the boys in the neighborhood. Ed said he remembers Sara stuck James Earl Day in the trash can by his feet. Sara just laughed and said she remembers waking up and thinking about who she could whip today. Even though she was tough with the neighborhood boys, Sara was fiercely protective of her own brothers. Her sister, Martha, “Mott” said she grew up thinking that her sister, Sara was the prettiest girl she had ever seen. She said she always thought she looked like Elizabeth Taylor. Sara said, “Well Lord, yes she had to have a big stick to carry to school to beat the boys off of her.”
I Always Knew He Was With Me
Sara told us that when she was little and they all lived at Park Place they could go to church anytime they wanted to. Sara said she remembers the church that was close to them was a little holiness church that she remembered walking to with her sister, Joyce. Sara said, “I remember knowing Jesus even then.” She said she remembered being little and she was sitting in a really high chair in the kitchen. She remembered being afraid and was crying. She said she knew Jesus was there with her and she wasn’t alone. Sara said later on in life she really got to know Jesus well. Sara laughed telling us, “I got saved three times before it really took.” After she laughed she explained her journey and said she came to believe in Him as a little child and then she said as you grow up you go your own way and you drift off, but she said you come back to Him. You learn how He is there with you at all times. She said that her faith is what has sustained her joy throughout her life and gotten her through some hard times.
When She Learned to Talk, She Called Me Mama
Sara said one vivid childhood memory was when she was hit by a car when she was nine years old. Sara said she was at the city park at the wading pool jumping around and getting wet. She thought if she ran right across the road she could make it to the city bus. She said she wasn’t even thinking about cars being in the road to get to the bus and when she ran out in the road, a car hit her and cut her a flip. It immediately broke her leg. Mott said when a little boy came home to tell Mama that Sara got hit by a car, Joyce was so distraught that she said she was going to jump off the banister. Mott laughed and said, “Well the banister was only a foot tall! Joyce being our older sister always had to get all the attention.” Sara said she broke the main bone in her left leg and had to stay in the hospital in traction. Sara said she had to lay flat of her back and they had to put bricks to hold her leg in place. She was there for six weeks. Sara said she lived there in Park Place when Mott had just been born. Sara said Mott was just a few days old when she broke her leg. Sara said, “When I got home from the hospital I would tend to Martha. Mama would put her crib by my bed and I would tend to her. When she learned to talk she called me Mama.” These two sisters have had a special bond ever since.
A Faith That Heals
Sara shared with us last year at a family breakfast how the Lord helped heal her. She said Buck Trent invited Sara and Daddy to the cathedral in Spartanburg to hear a healing preacher, Bill Bansky who was an evangelist. Sara’s leg since the car accident didn’t grow right and was a half of an inch shorter than the other one and she limped. Bill was preaching and said, “There is someone with leg and knee trouble.” She said no one went. She said she waited but she knew it was her. She said she was a little afraid because you had to go up on the stage and let the preacher pray with you. She said she went and he prayed with her and she felt her leg growing. She said she never limped after that. She used to wear a built up shoe after that and didn’t need it any more.
A Treasure Given and Received
Family has always been important to Sara and her brothers and sisters have fond memories of her being good to them. Her brother Ed said, “I remember when I was seven or eight years old and it was my birthday and Sara taped a dime and two nickels and five pennies to a birthday card and gave it to me. I was so excited about getting a whole quarter at one time I couldn’t believe it. I treasured that thing and held on to it.” Eddie said he loved it so much he put it in a safe place and he said every once in a while, he would get it out and look at it and every time would be struck at what his sister did for him. He said it is still in his safe and he sent me a picture of it above. Eddie laughed and said he couldn’t show it to Uncle Marion because Marion would have borrowed it. Ed said four or five years ago he took a picture of it and put it in a birthday card with twenty five dollars inside and gave it back to Sara on her birthday. He said he figured she had earned some interest on the money all those years ago. Sara said she loves that her brothers always trusted her and sometimes they regretted it. She laughed and said one day Eddie and Randy were sitting on the porch and needed a haircut. She said Mama wasn’t at home and she told them she went to Greenville Tech and learned how to cut hair. She said they were teenagers and they let her cut their hair, but she accidentally butchered it. Sara said it looked so bad Mama had to pay to get their hair cut. JoAnn said she saw them and they looked like they had the mange.
Double Dating and Dancing
Sara said her first job was when she was 15. She worked at Gene’s Restaurant on Buncombe Road with her sister, Joyce. She said she had walked to town from Park Place looking for a job and couldn’t find one. On the way back she saw Mr. Gene and he asked, “Did you find a job?” She said, “No sir.” He said, “Well you can work here but you can’t serve beer.” Joyce lived in a rooming house next door to Gene’s restaurant and they both worked the same shift. Carol, Joyce’s future husband lived in the same rooming house and one day they happened to meet at Gene’s restaurant. Carol would come in on pay day and would give Joyce a 50 cent tip. Joyce was embarrassed by the gesture and wouldn’t take any money from Carol so Sara jumped in and said she would be glad to take it for her!
Sara said sometimes she and Joyce would double date. She told about one time Red Timmons was going to take her to the fair but she didn’t want to go with him by herself. Red got his friend, IV to take Joyce so they could go together. They both went to the fair in Greenville and were so excited to see the Half Woman and Half Man movie playing there. Her sister, Martha said that when she was growing up she remembers Knock Ward, Red Timmons, and IV Matthews would all be coming to date Sara and Mary and Joyce. Sara said Red Timmons wasn’t her boyfriend but he would take her out to the Rhythm Ranch to go dancing and she sure did love to dance.
JoAnn said she and Pete would go out to the Rhythm Ranch to dance too and she said she remembers Sara could always know who was going to ask her to dance first. JoAnn said Sara would come up beside her and say, “I can always tell who is going to ask me first. Tonight it is going to be that man with the red socks.” JoAnn said Sara was always right.
First Love and Family
Sara said she met her husband, Jerome when they lived on Boiling Springs in the old school house and he lived on Pelham Road. She rode the bus to school and he did too. He was already in the 10th grade and she was in the 9th grade and they both went to Taylors School. She said he fell in love with her and told her that he purposefully failed school in the 9th grade so he could be in the same grade with her. Sara said she was so impressed then that he drove his own car. She said they would go to the Belmont Drive In where Jerome worked. They would put Jerome’s brother in the trunk so he could go with them. It wasn’t long after their drive in days that Jerome proposed and they were married. When they first got married they lived right there on Pelham Road near Jerome’s family, The McIntyres.
Martha said it didn’t matter where she lived, Sara was always around to help her mama with the kids. Martha said she remembers every Sunday, Sara would come over and cook a big dinner. She said that when Grannie Fannie went up north to stay with Joyce for a little while when Scott was born, Sara came and cooked and helped a lot. Mott said Sara would make beef and rice and buttered cake for them every Sunday. Randy said he loved when Michael would come over and play with him and Eddie.
Through the years Sara always knew that home was where her heart was. She spent many afternoons caring for her own children and looking after her younger brothers and sisters. Martha remembers when she was in the fourth grade she was hauling a giant pot of boiling water for washing dishes and she tilted it from the back of the sink instead of the front of it and poured scalding hot water all over herself. She said she was in the hospital in the children’s ward at the same time Sara was in the maternity ward delivering her second child, Michael’s sister, Sandy. Martha said Sara and Jerome lived in a little house right down the path and she remembered being able to sit with Sara and watching her little Sandy as an infant while Sara would go out. Sandy passed away tragically as an infant, but through the years Sara’s faith has helped hold not only sadness, but the sweet memories of her daughter.
If He Doesn’t Kiss Me, I’m Going to Kiss Him!
When I asked Aunt Sara how she met Uncle Johnnie, she said she was working at JM Fields at the snack bar. She said her brother, Marion and Calvin Saxton were friends. Marion and Calvin brought Johnnie to meet her at the snack bar one afternoon. Sara said Johnnie was so good looking. She said, “He was the best looking man I had ever seen. I fell for everything he said.” She told us that he immediately asked her, “Well you want to go swimming tomorrow?” She said she trusted him because her brother, Marion and Calvin knew him so she thought it was okay. She told him that she wanted to go swimming. He told her that he didn’t have a car so she said she could figure this out. She told him that she had her daddy’s old Chevrolet to drive but it didn’t have a floor board. He didn’t seem to mind one bit, so come Saturday, she went to pick Johnnie up. He was living with Dean and Ann in Mauldin at the time. She said she was so excited to be going up to Rainbow Lake in Spartanburg with him. Sara said once they got there they put their bathing suits on and went swimming. She said on the way back home they pulled in the driveway and he asked if he could kiss her. She said, “Yes!” She said she thought if he doesn’t kiss me I’m going to kiss him! When she finished telling this story, her eyes lit up and she grinned and said through laughter that she asked him to marry him the next day.
Late Night Parking and Reputations
Joyce and Grannie Fannie were waiting on Sara to come back home from dating Johnnie. Sara said she was 25 years old when she began steadily dating Johnnie and had her two children, Michael and Sid from her marriage to Jerome. She was living at home when she was dating him and she said when she and Johnnie went out to eat, they knew they couldn’t come back home and park in the driveway or Mama and Joyce would be mad at her. She said she and Johnnie would have to find somewhere else after their date to park and spend some time together. She said she thought Johnnie was the best looking thing there was and was crazy about him and he was crazy about her. Neither one of them had much money but they loved being able to see each other when they could. She said Grannie Fannie and Joyce were strict with her dating even though she was grown with children. She was usually late coming home from her dates and one time when she got in long after dark she got in some trouble. She said Johnnie cut the lights off down the road and just eased the car in the drive way and dropped her off about eleven o clock when she knew everyone was asleep. She said she carefully knocked on Mott’s bedroom window and Mott raised the window up to let her in. She said as soon as she struggled to climb in the window sill and stand up she looked past Martha and saw Joyce and Grandma standing there with their arms crossed scowling at her, watching her struggle to get through that window. She said they gave her a hard time about ruining her reputation. Sara laughed and said, “Here I was 25 years old, already had two kids, and if I’ve lost my reputation everyone should already know it!” If she’d lost her reputation, it didn’t hold her back one bit. She was just as beautiful and kind and funny as she ever was.
Grits and Guitars
Randy said when Sara and Johnnie lived at Pelham near Ross’s Grocery they lived in a yellow house with all the kids. He said he loved to go and see her in the morning for breakfast. He said he didn’t know how Sara came up with this concoction but she would take potted meat and put it in the grits and man they were so good. He couldn’t wait to get to go visit Sara and have those grits. He said he knew they didn’t have a lot of money so instead of bacon and sausage and grits she would have “ham grits.” Randy said those were the best tasting grits and even though Sara and Johnnie did the best they could feeding their family, she always made room at the table for him and Ed when they came by for a bowl of grits too.
Ed said that Sara could really cook and knew how to make a dollar stretch in the kitchen. He said she would make white bean soup with cornbread, biscuits and gravy, chicken in dumplings, and knew how to feed a family of six with four growing boys. Randy said one time Sara and Johnnie moved to Georgia, right down the road from Mary and IV a little ways from Sandy Cross in a place called Whitehead’s Place. While Johnnie worked Sara and the boys had a garden full of vegetables. They had almost an acre it seemed of okra and the boys cut okra every day for her to fry up. Ed said one day Sara had a big ole pressure cooker full of turnip greens going while they were outside working in the garden and the pressure cooker blew up spraying turnip greens all over the kitchen. Sara handled that like she handles every trial in life, she laughed and then she got down to business cleaning it up, and then laughed some more when she was telling her sisters and brothers about it on the phone.
When Sara and Johnnie moved back home to the farmhouse in Fountain Inn, Johnnie and the boys used to invite everyone over on a Saturday night for guitar playing and visiting. Randy said he always looked forward to their picking sessions in the back room where Johnnie and the boys, he and Eddie, and Pete and JoAnn would always have the best time playing and singing everything from Johnnie Cash to George Jones. Randy said Sara always helped look after the kids and in the late evenings Sara would always head into her kitchen and fix them up a mess of homemade biscuits and sawmill gravy with sausage. Randy said there was no better tasting late night food then Sara’s biscuits and gravy.
Children: The More, The Merrier!
All of us have fond memories of visiting Sara and Johnnie’s farmhouse in Fountain Inn. Sara always welcomed us to her home and we loved picking peaches straight from the peach orchard that neighbored their property. Some of my sweetest childhood memories are spending a summer day sitting on her screened in back porch eating a peach freshly picked, the fuzz warm against my chin and sticky sweet peach juice running down my arm. Sara loved kids… her own and all of her nieces and nephews, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. She treats all of us like we were her own. My brother, Shawn said he remembers going over to the house in Fountain Inn when the men would play guitars and he used to hate going to the bathroom down the hallway of the farmhouse because it was so dark. He said Sara would let him go right outside the screened in porch and she would wait with him. She would also fix us a late night snack. When I asked her about always having a house full of kids around, Sara smiled and said, “Kids never bothered me. They still don’t. The more the merrier.”
Checkers and Cross Stitching with Sophia and Cohen
Years ago on Friday nights you might find Sara out cutting a rug on the dance floor at the Rhythm Ranch with Pete and JoAnn and a line full of young boys wanting her to glance their way. These days Sara’s Friday night date calendar is already booked months in advance with her granddaughter, Amanda Bree and her great grandchildren, Sophia, and Cohen. Their favorite thing to do after having a bite to eat is to play checkers together. Through the jumping and the crowning of kings there is a lot of laughing and storytelling too. Amanda said that recently Sara has been teaching Sophia how to cross stitch. She has a lap full of Cohen and her arms full with Sophia and her heart is overflowing with love for each one of her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
The Writing On The Wall
While Sara doesn’t get to see her other great grandchildren as much as she would like to, due to distance, they are never far from her thoughts or her prayers. In fact, one of my very favorite stories of Sara’s love for her grandchildren is one that has to do with her protecting some very special handwriting on the wall in her living room right below her television. Once when I was over there visiting with my Daddy I noticed some writing on the wall and asked Sara if she wanted me to get a magic eraser and clean it off for her. She immediately put her hand to her mouth and said, “Lord, why no Dawn! You would not believe how smart my Jalen is! He did this when he was here with Christy and Jeremy awhile back. He was watching a music show he loves on t.v. and then he immediately looked for a pen and wrote the entire words of the song title right here on my wall. I don’t want to ever cover it up because it reminds me of how good God is and how He knows His children and He doesn’t ever make any mistakes.” I teared up when I heard her speak these words because we had just found out a few years back that Jalen was diagnosed with autism. He is brilliant in his music and art ability and can memorize so many things. One thing I know that he knows is that his Grandma Sara loves him with all her heart!”
The Birds and The Bees and Jesus
Anytime Sara would get her nieces in the car she would tell them about the birds and the bees and then she would tell them about Jesus. Marty said she remembers Aunt Sara saying, “If any boy ever tries to see your underpants you ask him, “Well why, did you poop in yours?” Then Marty said then she would tell us about Jesus. She would tell us how we were supposed to live and how Jesus loved us no matter what.
Biscuits As Wrinkle Prevention
I remember Aunt Sara telling me that anytime you split a little dessert with someone, well the calories just escape right through the middle! When I had gained a little weight in college I was complaining about it to her and she said, “Well girl that is just your reserves and it is smart to have a little reserves. All these little tiny ole’ skinny things running around don’t have any reserves on them and if they get sick or down and out they will just plumb waste away. We have a little reserves so if things get bad we will have a little something on our bones to help us get through it.” Anytime Aunt Sara got a new wrinkle, she would tell us that all she had to do was just eat another biscuit and it would pop that wrinkle right out. That is the secret to beautifully, smooth skin. Well, that and living right and having a heart like Aunt Sara!
Folk Songs Like Lemon Tree and Cabbage Head
All of us nieces love to hear Sara sing the song, Lemon Tree. I did a little research and the song was a well-loved folk song sung by a man named Will Holt in the 1950s. The lyrics are below and when you read the words I know just like me you can hear Sara’s sweet voice singing them…
“When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
“Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.”
“Don’t put your faith in love, my boy,” my father said to me,
“I fear you’ll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.”
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.
One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie,
A girl so sweet that when she smiled, the stars rose in the sky.
We passed that summer lost in love, beneath the lemon tree,
The music of her laughter hid my father’s words from me.
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.
One day she left without a word, she took away the sun.
And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.
She left me for another, it’s a common tale but true,
A sadder man, but wiser now, I sing these words to you.
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet,
But the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat.”
Sara also loves to sing an Old Doc Watson song from his Rambling Hobo album called Cabbage Head. The lyrics are below and when you get to the end I know you can hear Sara’s laughter in your ear just like I can.
I come home the first night, drunk as I could be
And there was a mule in the stable, where my mule orta be
I asked my wife, my pretty little wife, explain this thing to me
How come there’s a mule in the stable, where my mule orta be?
Well, you old fool, you drunken fool, can’t you plainly see
That’s nothin’ but a milk cow my granny gave to me?
Well, I’ve traveled the whole world over, ten thousand miles and more
And a saddle and a bridle on a milk cow I ain’t never seen before
Well, I come home the second night, drunk as I could be
And there was a hat on the hat rack, where my hat orta be
I asked my wife, my pretty little wife, explain this thing to me
How come there’s a hat on the hat rack, where my hat orta be?
Well, you old fool, you drunken fool, can’t you plainly see
That’s nothin’ but a chamber pot my granny gave to me?
Well, I’ve traveled the whole world over, ten thousand miles and more
And a John B. Stetson chamber pot I ain’t never seen before
Well, I come home the third night, drunk as I could be
And there was a pair of pants, where my pants orta be
I asked my wife, my pretty little wife, explain this thing to me
How come these pants on the chair, where my pants orta be?
Well, you old fool, your drunken fool, can’t you plainly see
That’s nothin’ but a dish rag my granny gave to me?
Well, I’ve traveled the whole world over, ten thousand miles and more
And a … zipper on a dish rag I ain’t never seen before
Well, I come home the last night, drunk as I could be
And there was a head on the pillow, where my head orta be
I asked my wife, my pretty little wife, explain this thing to me
How come there’s a head on the pillow, where my head orta be?
Well, you old fool, you drunken fool, can’t you plainly see
That’s nothin’ but a cabbage head my granny gave to me?
Well, I’ve traveled the whole world over, ten thousand miles and more
And a moustache on a cabbage I ain’t never seen before!
Forgiveness, Faith, and Family: Love That Lasted A Lifetime
Sara said when she and Johnnie married, Johnnie wouldn’t really go dancing and didn’t believe in it but he would go with JoAnn. Sara said Johnnie was insanely jealous. If there was a man walking down the road and she happened to just see him he would cuss her out real good thinking she was wanting to talk to him. Sara said she would just laugh inside and think to herself, she didn’t have time to be thinking about no other man. Sara loved Johnnie throughout their marriage and took her vows for better or for worse and in sickness and in health seriously. There were many times throughout their marriage that was filled with good times and laughter. One time Johnnie and Sara and Pete and JoAnn went to the mountains just for the day. Sara had cooked a pot of pinto beans and cornbread was going to take that with them to have a picnic when they got there. On the way a car, pulled out in front of them and hit Pete’s car. The policeman who responded could not figure out why there was pinto beans all over the road!
There were also times that were filled with heartache and with hard times. Even though she loved Johnnie with all her heart she couldn’t love away some of the demons he struggled with. There were times that she had to take the kids and leave him to get some peace and to keep the kids safe. No matter how bad it was, once he would sober up and straighten out, she would go back to him. She knew he loved her as best as he could and she loved him through it all. One time when I asked her about it she said, “Forgiveness is what we have to give if that is what we hope to get.” Sara’s faith is one that isn’t just on Sunday morning, it is one that is lived out day in and day out. She believes that love is forever and that it is an action that you live out and forgiveness isn’t an option, it is a requirement.
Mama’s Boys
Sara loved being a mother and was blessed to raise four boys and was able to see each one of them grown and married with kids and now grandkids of their own. Sara’s boys are all tall and strong and can do just about anything with a hammer and some nails. They were known far and wide for both their carpentering ability as well as their ability to take care of any business that needed taking care of. The Blanton boys were tough when they needed to be, but through the years they all share the same soft spot in their heart for their mama. In fact they built their mama and daddy a brand new house on some land beside their old farmhouse and through the years anything their mama ever needs, they make sure they take care of her. Whether it is mowing her grass or taking her to the doctor she doesn’t want for anything. When asked about his mama, Sid said, “My mama raised 4 boys and an alcoholic and no matter what was thrown at her she never took her eyes off of God. She never prays for herself only for others. She’s not just my mama she’s my light. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA. Eric said, “She’s been an angel sent straight from heaven, never selfish and never complains. We are just so blessed to have her as our mom.”
Sweet Sara June
While Sara dearly loves every single one of her grandchildren and great grandchildren, she received a pretty amazing blessing back in the fall of 2018 when her namesake, sweet little Sara June came into the world. Her grandson, Jeremy and his beautiful wife, Christy welcomed Sara June as baby number seven into their family. You can tell by the big smile on her face that she already knows she is loved and prayed for.
A Love for the Golden Years
After Johnnie passed away, Sara worked at Carter and Crowley and she worked with a sweet girl who kept telling her how she would be so good for her father in law, Doug. Sara said she agreed to meet him and they hit it off right away. They both loved the Lord and enjoyed serving their church. Doug worked tirelessly to take care of mowing the grass on the church lawn every week at The Church of God in Mauldin. Doug knew what a treasure he had in Sara and she enjoyed his company and loved being with him. It wasn’t long after they met, that Doug proposed and they were married. Whenever you saw them together, you saw him smiling at her. He would always tell you how much he loved her and how beautiful she was. Doug was very protective of Sara. One time Pete and JoAnn went out west with Doug and Sara and they all went on a train ride. A comedian on the train ride made a comment about how beautiful Sara was and Doug became upset over it and set the guy straight about Sara being his wife and he didn’t want anyone to talk to her that way. Their love was a sweet love but one that lasted far too short. During the time that Doug was sick, Sara took care of him and also welcomed Grannie Fannie into her home and took care of her during the last months of her life. We were all thankful for how well she cared for her and all of us whenever we came to visit.
Sara’s Faith: Taste and See That the Lord is Good
One of the qualities that we admire the most about Sara is her faith. Many of us have fond memories of attending church or vacation bible school with Sara down at Bethany Baptist Church in Fountain Inn. When us girl cousins were little we can remember sitting beside Sara in the pew at Bethany and her tickling our arm while we sat beside her and introducing us to her friends in her Sunday School class. I can hear her now saying, “Now won’t you just look at my niece? Ain’t she just beautiful? Well Lord, yes and she is a good girl too.” If we got to her farmhouse before church we would have warm some buttered biscuits before we went and if we missed breakfast but got there after church she would always have something fixed good for us to eat and always slide up a chair for us. Sometimes she would take us to go down the road and see Granny Fannie and Aunt Joyce on a Sunday afternoon and play with our cousins. Psalm 34: 8 says “Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.” This verse always makes me think of my Aunt Sara. If truth be told there are many members of Bethany Baptist Church in Fountain Inn that were invited to come and see the Lord by sweet Sara and I know for sure there are so many of us that are believers too because our first experiences hearing about the Lord were snuggled up next to her lap.
I Can’t Complain About A Thing
Over the years Sara has experienced trials and troubles of her own…being in the car accident… losing her baby girl, Sandy… going through the struggles of being a wife to a strong willed husband and a devoted mother to four strong willed boys that are now men…serving in sickness and in health two husbands that are now gone on with the Lord…but Sara never counts her losses or her trials, she only counts her blessings. Through it all Sara never complains.
Over the years whenever I have asked her how she was doing she would always say, “Lord, Dawn I am blessed. God has been good to me throughout my whole life. I can’t complain about a thing. I am able to get up and go and as long as I can be a help to someone I am going to do it.” We are all able to testify to how she continues to do that day in and day out. Sara, we are so very thankful for the many ways you have lived out with your life a legacy of family, of faith, and of love. May this birthday be the best one yet! We all love you so very much!
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