Holler from the Hills

HIS NAME WAS ANGELO

Hello Everyone,

        I am sending out this message to ask you all to send energy to the family of Angelo Benavidez.  Angelo was a beautiful, charming, happy child I had the privilege to have in my classroom this year.  This past weekend there was a terrible six-car pile-up near Taos, New Mexico.  Angelo and his grandpa were killed instantly.  His grandma is in critical condition.  

        Angelo’s dad came in to school at St. Luke to tell us.  We just held each other and cried.  Angelo was his only child.  Angelo’s dad and maternal grandpa asked to come see the classroom.  His dad told me how much Angelo loved school and Mr. Jay.  He loved the songs he learned, and he loved being a helper in the room. 

        Please send energy to the family of Angelo Benavidez.  Say a prayer to the God/dess of your understanding.  Light a candle.  Do what feels right.  Please also send energy to those of us at the school. 

        Tonight I am calling the families from my classroom to let them know what has happened.  Tomorrow I am going to tell the other children.  We have talked and decided that next week’s Christmas concert will be dedicated to Angelo. 

        Thank you all for being part of my family.

Love,

Jay

This is the old Knight home that was in Mill Creek out side of Mill Spring.   

Knight Home in Mill Creek

George M. Knight, Dicey Ann (Henson), Mary and linda Knight, Helen Prince, Willis and Melvin Knight, Jane (Marler) and John Knight.

Here is the old home of Walter and Hester Laxton in Mill Spring. The home was next to the creek and down the road from Mill Spring Cemetery. The old home burned down and A new home was build after Carl Laxton and family talk them in to building a new one, that still stands today.

Linda, Willis Knight and Hester, Walter Laxton old home

Mary (Laxton) Knight at old Laxton home

Laxton family new home and still standing in Mill Spring

Stacey and Robert Korte have a new daughter, Kayla Renay, born 10:11 am, 9/20/08.  She weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces, and was 20-1/4 inches long.  Callie is happy to have a baby sister.  Fonda and Jerry Wells are proud grandparents.

FROM GEORGIA KELLEY

(Lexophile: Lover of words)

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Did you hear about the guy whose left side was cut off? He’s all right now.

A thief who stole a computer got twelve months.

If you take a laptop computer for a run, you could jog your memory.

A will is a dead giveaway.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.

He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.

A boiled egg is hard to beat.

When you’ve seen one shopping center, you’ve seen a mall.

Henry is one year old. His parents are Amber and Rick Goodwin, and his big sister is Madelyn. Proud great-grandma is Marjorie Thomason.

Thought you might enjoy this picture of Willis Knight. He is the son of the late Melvin and Mary Knight. He grew these in our little garden. They weighed 7-1/2 pounds each.

John Lunn married Shelila J., and they had a son named Lorin Lincoln Lunn. He was born Jan. 27, 1873 in Metrapolis, IL. He died on Oct. 18, 1953 in Poplar Bluff, Mo. He also married Tishey (Henson), step-sister of Dicey Ann (Henson) Knight. She was born Dec. 27, 1880 in Carter Co., Mo. She died on July 1, 1943 in Mill Spring , Mo., and they had a daughter named Dorothy Lunn. She was born May 15, 1924 and died Dec. 1, 2005, and she married Clayton C. Street. He was born May 17, 1927 and died July 17, 1999 in Ellsinore, Carter Co., Mo. They married on May 20, 1941. Their burial was in Mill Spring Cemetery. They had a son named Pat or Petter Street.