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Steve Dick
March 5, 2008
If we are lucky, there will be a few people enter our lives that make a difference and help mold who we are. Sylvia and her family will always be that for me and my family. We are better people for having known her and her’s.
I have a personal childhood memory to share. As and young kid my family and I lived on a new street in a new housing addition. A beautiful new house was being built across the street and my parents had met the family that was planning on moving in. Mom and Dad sure liked them. Being rambunctious kids, climbing around the frames of new houses being built in the neighborhood was a favorite past time of ours. My Dad had talked to me about doing that many times. Knowing how we boys were, Dad had a talk about this particular house and how he liked the family and wanted us NOT to climb around on this house as it was being built. He came home one day to find all of us hanging all over the frame of this house. We must have looked like the monkey’s exhibit at the zoo. It resulted in an attitude adjustment, in our closed garage, with a rubber hose. It was the first of only two times, in my life, I experienced such an adjustment. I, to this day, have a reverence for the Burkett family and I will whole heartily agree with Mom and Dad's assessment of the new family moving in.....it was one of the best things that could have happened to us and the neighborhood. Sylvia and her family started making a better man of me well before I met them!!!
Sylvia,
Rest well with God…….you worked hard, did a great job and you deserve it!!!!!!
With Love,
Steve
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