Alvina Gilmore

Eulogy Given August 30, 2005 to Nana the day of her funeral

Eulogy Given August 30, 2005 to Nana the day of her funeral

Eulogy Given August 30, 2005 to Nana the day of her funeral.

Eulogy Given August 30, 2005 to Nana the day of her Funeral.

"But for right now, we have three things to do: trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love."
Alvina Gilmore. Now that lady, and I do mean lady in the most proper sense of the word, was all about love. And fudge, apple pies, and ice cream sundaes from Michael's Dairy, but mostly about love.
As everyone who knew her could tell, Alvina loved God, Jesus and the Blessed...

This was read August 30, 2005

This is a translation of the bible called the message:

A reading from the first letter of the apostle Paul to the members of the church in Corinth:
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love,...

Tribute Given August 30, 2005 to Nana the day of her Funeral.

Who was Alvina Strickland Glynn Gilmore? Alvina was a devoted daughter, sister, wife, sister-in-law, aunt, mother, mother-in-law and grandmother.
She truly adored her son Arthur. He brought so much joy to her life. I know that she was concerned that he was an only child. Although my father tried to reassure her that he was fine with it she was never really convinced. Finally, after one of her many talks on...

On this Day in 1909 my father was born.

I would like to pay tribute to him and my mom this day with the following:


The Footpath to Peace

To be glad of life because it gives us the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with our possessions, but not contented with ourselves until we have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness and to fear nothing except cowardice; to...