Showing posts with label memorial day 2023. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorial day 2023. Show all posts

Saturday, May 27, 2023

MEMORIAL DAY 2023

 For many, Memorial Day is considered the first day of summer a time to celebrate with family gatherings, shopping, cookouts, and vacations. It is however a solemn day. Let us now hold each other close, forgetting grudges and disappointments within our family. 

 Memorial Day was established as a United States federal holiday to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice and died while serving in the military.  "The   National Moment of Remembrance," asks all citizens to have one minute of silence at 3 PM local time in tribute to those who died in the military.  Taps Across America will be played for the fourth year at that time.

This day is also a day I have chosen to acknowledge and remember all non-military family members who have died.  I would like to recognize family members who have died from all causes from Memorial Day 2022 to the present. We will remember the smiling faces, and life lessons learned, and celebrate their lives. I want to thank Terence Caston for allowing me to post this moving message from the Home Going of his beloved wife Constance Cross Caston. 





NAME

DATE

LOCATION

Parents

Harry Caston Jr.

July 9, 1936 to February 15, 2023

Sacramento, California

Son of Harry Caston Sr & Mattie Varnado

Smith Warren

December 7, 1931  to February 10, 2023

McComb, Mississippi

Son of William Warren & Mamie Caston

John Brooks Jr.

April 21, 1953 to February, 2023

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Son of John Hunter Brooks Sr & Dorothy Ellzey

Bernice Allen Weatherspoon

April 28, 1946, to December 7, 2022

Magnolia, Mississippi

Daughter of Claude Allen & Norine Caston

Constance Cross Caston

July 31, 1963 to December 20, 2022

Kennesaw, Georgia

Johnnie W. Cross Jr. & Janet Yvonne Cross Wife of Terence Caston

Alton Brumfield

 June 20, 1944  to                December 26, 2022

Merrillville, Indiana

Son of Richard Lee Henry Brumfield & Wilmetta Maria Gowdy

Willie Toins Jr.

November 27, 1936 to December 30, 2022

Flint, Michigan

Son of Willie Toins Sr & Rovelia Lane

Willie J. Nichols

August 20, 1936 to March 7, 2023

Compton, Los Angles, California

Son of Roy Nichols & Ethel Brumfield

Ruby Lee

                                    March, 2023

Flint, Michigan

Granddaughter of Charlie Barnes and Bertha Brumfield

Anthony Tyrone Brumfield Sr.

June 17, 1959 to February 27,  2023

 New Orleans, Louisiana

Son of Slim Brumfield & Emma Barnes

Charlie Lee Barnes

February 13, 1937 to March 5, 2023

St. Charles, Missouri

Son of Charlie Barnes & Bertha Brumfield

Donald Patrick Brumfield

December 14, 1953 to December 20, 2022

Clinton, Hines, Mississippi

Son of Thad Brumfield & Mildred Hodges

Harold Smith

September 21, 1943 to October 15, 2022

Bolingbrook, Illinois

Son of  Henry Smith & Charlene Caston

Hattie Mae Brumfield

 March 11, 1941 to February 5, 2023

 Chicago, Illinois

 Salina Veals & Eddie Brumfield Sr.