Gene Autry Harrell Sr.

Hey Uncil Gene, I was just thinking about you. I always do. So, i decided to read your guest book. And i wanted to write you something, but i dont know what to write, when you were in the hospital i always wanted to come and see you. but i just didnt realize how bad you were. i guess it was because you were always in high sprits. and you didnt ever act like you were in a bad shape. well, i am going to write something for you and everyone who reads this. it really changed me.

IF I KNEW

If i knew it would be the last time that i'd see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the lord, your soul to keep.



If i knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more.



If i knew it would be the last time i'd hear your voice lifted up in praise, I would video tape each action and word, so i could play them back day after day.



If i knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute to stop and say "i love you" instead of assuming you would KNOW i do If i knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day, well i'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away.



For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an over sight, and we always get a second chance to make everything just right.



There will always be another day to say "i love you", and certainly theres another chance to say our Anything I can do? but just in case I might be wrong, and today is all i get, i'd like to say how much i love you and i hope we never forget.



Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike, and today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight.



So if your waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today? for if tomorrow never comes. you'll regret the day.



That you didnt take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish. So hold your loved ones close today, and whisper in their ear, Tell them how much you love them and that youll always hold them dear.

Take time to say "im sorry", "please forgive me," thank you, or its okay. And if tomorrow never comes, youll have no regrets about today.

love always and forever,

wendy lafayette

p.s. I miss you so much Uncil Gene, and feel free to drop in anytime in my dreams. I love you

Hello again hoochie daddy. I got to thinking about you again, and wanted to write. I sure do miss you a lot. I know your in a better place, but out of my own selfishness, I would rather have you here. I know your up in heaven with your mother looking down at all of us. One thing I can be happy about is, your not in any more pain anymore. I wish I went to the hospital more than I did, but I took for granted that you were going to stick around a whole lot longer. We are all guilty of that. We always take our loved ones for granted...knowing they will be around forever, but it doesnt work like that. I just want to tell you again that I love you a whole lot. And I miss you more than that. Its just good to know that you opened up your heart to Christ. So now I know I will be seeing you again. Until next time...Goodnight.

Hey there "hoochie daddy," its been only 3 weeks since you passed. I still cant believe your gone. I sure do miss you. I miss your jokes...I miss your laugh...I really miss your smile. Aunt Jean is trying to feel better. You can see that she is still really sad. She loves you a whole lot. I dont believe I have ever met a woman as strong as she is though. Well, guess I'll call it a night. I love you very much Uncil Gene. Good night John Boy! :o)

God sovereignly put me in your home where I was loved for many years. I am thankful for your geneous kindness to me and will be forever grateful. My heart rejoices that you chose to ask Christ into your heart. I know I will see you again.



Love,

Ann

we love you

Dearest Family and Friends, We are greatful for each of you. Your love and support as well [and most importantly] your prayers have been such a blessing to each of us. We are including the words of a song and the story behind it for your comfort. We love you all and are pryaing God's riches blessings and comfort on you all.

Dad is blessing heaven now as he has always blessed us. What a time they must all be having up there. We are a bit jealous.

A special thanks to Craig, your help and compasion are amazing and we thank God for you during this difficult time in our life. Also to our new family at the Hospital, you all are wonderful and can not be thanked enough so we are asking God to do it for us. Thank You All.

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IT IS WELL

Horatio Gates Spafford

was a wealthy businessman who suffered financial ruin in the Chicago fire of October, 1871. A short time later, his wife and four daughters were on a voyage crossing the Atlantic when their ship collided with another ship, and only his wife survived the wreck. She sent notice to him by way of a telegram, which bore the message "Saved alone" in order to let him know that she had been rescued. Later, when Spafford himself was on a trans-Atlantic journey, as he came near the site where his daughters had lost their lives, he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to pen the following words, which later became a hymn. Originally given the name "Ville de Havre", the name of the ill-fated ship, which had taken the lives of his daughters, the hymn is now known by the name,

It Is Well With My Soul

Please read carefully the words to the song, as they point to the eternal hope of all Christians. We can rejoice in the knowledge that Jesus, with the cross, has secured for each of us eternal glory. Regardless of the trials and hardships we may endure here on earth, we can rest in this hope. I pray that all is well with your soul today and that you have found a resting place in the loving arms of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.



It Is Well With My Soul

When peace like a river attendeth my way,

When sorrows like sea billows roll;

Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say

It is well, it is well with my soul.



Refrain:

It is well, with my soul,

It is well, with my soul,

It is well, it is well, with my soul.



Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,

Let this blest assurance control,

That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,

And hath shed His own blood for my soul.



Refrain



My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!

My sin, not in part, but the whole,

Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,

Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, O my soul!



Refrain



And Lord haste the day when my faith shall be sight,

The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,

The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,

Even so, it is well with my soul.



Refrain:

It is well, with my soul,

It is well, with my soul,

It is well, it is well, with my soul.





WE LOVE YOU AND ARE HERE ALWAYS!

Hey there hochie daddy!!!! Man i am sure going to miss your smile your jokes and i am sure going to miss seeing you laught the thing you do when you really make a joke about me or some one else, you trow your hands up and just laught as hard as you can. You were allways making some one laught. Man every time I think about it i cant belive you are gone. I miss walking in to your house and seeing you there waching t.v or really getting on to grandma about waching the hide off your t.v. Man we sure have had some times!I miss seeing you play poker with every one when they come up!!!!I miss making you srewdrivers and making them really srong so you would gove them to me :)I am just going to miss every thing about you! When i would leave you would say good night jon girl, and i would say good night jon boy. i wish i could say this again when you are really looking at me. You just wasint an uncle you were a best friend, and a gide to help me with things like when i went to mowe the yard you would show me where to go and how to do it!I love you so much i never said that enought times!!!!Aunt jean is doing good we are all helping her trought these hard times, she has been so storning!Little gene, sheila and little pam are doing good they are really srong. You sure have some strong kids!!Uncle Gene you were my best friend I have ever had! I miss making macoronnie and chese for you.yYou sure did eat a lot when I made it! Aunt bonnie made some yesterday and I ate enoght for you and me lol :). You know the other day me and uncle carl was sitting on the sings and I was talking about the sing bracking, and the next thing you know it broke like the time it broke with us on the sind lol i swear you did that just to see us laght and to see me bust my butt!!!!!! I told aunt jean that and she said that was just like you!Uncle Gene you just wasnt an uncle your where my loving best friend I have ever had, I love you so much GOD I sure miss you!!!!!the night i was as the hospital you looked up and said hey theres SUNNY oh my god my heart dropped and I said there is my uncle in the bed not doing good and there is nothing I can do about it!It was all in gods hands and we all new it. We just didnt want to belive we were going to lose you! I came back after you had passed away and you looked like you werent hurting at all and i am so happy about that, It just was like my uncle is gone and i couldent belive it! I just new that you were going to pop up and say hey I GOT YOU HOCHIE MOMMA!!!!!!! GOD i wish you were here.The time you live up here with my family i really got to know you. I just cant stop talking its like you are here and i cant stop like you all ways say once you get sunny started she wont stop!Wll you know what i am going to do i am going to print a big picher of you out and put it buy my bed and look at you evertime i go to bed and say (good night hocchie daddy)or ( goodnight jon boy). well I am going to say good night now I love you so much and i will be thinking anout you all the time.I want to say one more thing to whom ever reading this my uncle Gene wasnt just some you see every where else you will never find some one like him ever again!!!!! HE WAS ONE OF A KIND!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU AND WILL MISS YOU FOR EVER AND ALL WAYS!!!LOVE YOU SUNNY MICHELLE LAFAYETTE!!!!! :)~~

i will be seeing you hochie daddy!!!

Uncil Gene was a great Uncil to have. Any time anyone was down, he would do anything he had to do to make them smile. He sure will be missed. We all love him dearly. See ya later "Hoochie Daddy" :o)

Offering our deepest condolences during this difficult time.