I have happy memories of Marion from years ago. She always seemed to have a smile on her face, and a twinkle in her eye whenever I saw her.
I remember lots of occasions when she and Shelley came to play shuffleboard with Grandpa Jack and Grandma Helen at Bass Lake--I think Shelley used to help repaint the markings on the shuffleboard for Grandpa too. Visits to the red and white trailer at the lake, rides in the boat. Seeing my great-aunt Edyth Muir when she and uncle George used to come to the trailer in the summer to visit from Montreal. Spending time with Tim, Johnny, and Eunice when they came to stay at Bass Lake too.
Sitting across the meeting room from she and Shelley when they sat beside Hazel Grey and Marion James. Visits when Shelley used to come over to our house to give my brother Kevin a hair cut since Kevin was scared of going to barber shops (thanks for doing that Shelley-Kevin would be 41 now if he was alive). Marion always helped out with the 'assembly line' set up at the meeting room to make the sandwiches for Sunday School treats; she taught a girls class at Sunday School when I was younger.
I remember that Marion liked music--once when she was babysitting Kevin and I (possibly around the time that Grandpa Jack Wood was having his open-heart surgery in 1973), Marion cooked us a spaghetti lunch. Since I also liked music, I had some cheerful tunes playing on the stereo while she made the lunch. When the spaghetti was ready, Marion loaded it all on a plate and headed from the stove to our table. She was tapping her feet and enjoying the music, and in the process, the entire spaghetti dinner slid off the plate all over Mom's kitchen floor. I remember her laughing and laughing--Kevin and I had never seen anything quite like this, so we thought it was great fun!
Now that Marion is safe home with her Saviour, it leaves only Aunt Willa Clark of that entire generation of the Wood family still with us. Soon we'll all hear the 'shout' and be called to be with our Saviour, and our many dear loved ones that have gone on before - perhaps today we'll see His loving face :)
My sympathy as you all sorrow for your wife, Mom, and Grandma.
