Remembrances

Saturday, June 29, Day 67 (cont'd)

My trip to Moses Lake came full circle with a visit to Pioneer Memorial Gardens.  There is a plaque there for my sister Barbara, my mother and father Eugene and Bertha Williams are buried there, and there's a plaque for my Aunt Jim.  I have no relatives that still live in Moses Lake. 

I was relieved to see the cemetery was in much better shape then the last time I was here, and there were some repairs made to stones.  It's a peaceful place and I'm glad I came to pay my respects. 

There has been some turnover in ownership of the cemetery, including a couple that got in a fight and one shot the other as they drove away from the cemetery.  I heard this from a guy I met while I was

visiting my family graves.  He had a knife in his hand to pull up the flower vase, and  as he was talking, he kept waiving it around, inadventently, until I had to back away!  

I remember the last time I visited here.  Our son Chris, who flies C-17's, often did touch and goes on the airstrip here.  John and I stood at the cemetery and watched some C-17's overhead. We knew they weren't Chris, but it was ironic that we got married at the chapel on that Air Base, and then our son used it to train.   Small world!