Prayers indeed! I am hoping Ashley's supervisor has a change of heart..and fast. Joyce
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Chuck Alexander < [email protected]> wrote: > Folks: We just had kinda, sorta death in the family this Tuesday > night/Wed morning about 12:30am. And check out this story. My son has been > dating and engaged to this girl Ashley for about a year and a half now and > he she lives with her grand parents, and my son lives there with them as > well. Well, they kept talking about “Papa Fred this, Papa Fred that”. And > Nana this, and Nana that. Well, My son one day asked me if I knew Fred > Dempsey, and I said, “Only for 35 yrs now”. He said “THAT’S “Papa Fred”. > Fred and his brother Bruce (who just lost his wife to cancer less than > three months ago) owned a garage and I was their main mechanic (that was > when plugs, points, condenser and rotor and you were “on the road again” > most times. > > Anyway, Billie and I started going over there and seeing Fred and his wife > since I found out who it was, and anyway, all my son’s grand parents on > mine and my wife’s side died before he was just a few yrs old, so “Nana” > (and Fred) have been like grand parents to him and when she died this week > (from Parkinson’s complications” it has been devastating for him and his > fiancé’ as well as Fred. Her funeral will be this Saturday at 2pm. Took so > long as “Nana” has a grandson in the military stationed in Hawaii and > Friday is the soonest he can make it home. Hawaii is getting a whale of a > hurricane and he said they were moving GI’s to different bases in > California etc till the storm passes, so he’d be kinda headed this way even > if his grand mother had not passed away. > > To top it all off, Fred and Bruce’s oldest brother’s wife just died less > than a yr ago, as did their only Sister. It’s been a rough family for the > Dempsey family this yr so even though ya’ll don’t know them, please keep > them in your thoughts and prayers. One last thing. Ashley is working at the > local nursing home as a Nurse (The lady who died was also a nurse for 30 > yrs, so that’s why Ashley wanted to become a nurse) on a 4pm till midnight > shift, and they had called the hospice ppl in on Tuesday after Ashley had > gone to work and they said they didn’t think she’d make it through the > night and to “call in the family”. Well Ashley hasn’t been working there > long and is still on probation, so her supervisor (old bitty) told her she > HAD to finish out her shift. Ashley worked her shift, then flew home real > fast. Her Nana had stopped breathing just 30 SECONDS before Ashley got > home. Basically, she had died. Ashley went in to see her, and her Nana > opened her eyes for about 10-20 seconds, smiled, then passed away for good > after that. > > Now how do you account for that other than God allowing Ashley to say good > bye to her beloved Grand mother, who raised her. The nursing home didn’t > even want Ashley to miss any work on Saturday, which is the day of the > fumeral, but she told them to “kiss her hiney”, and I told her “good for > you, and if that’s how they treat their workers you need to go to work at > the hospital which is ajacent to the nursing home here. She said that’s > just what’s she’s going to check about. She has to jump through a lot of > hoops as she is in a local college to become and LPN (and hopefully an RN), > and that job is part of her “OJT” agreement with the school and the nursing > home. Thanks a lot. I didn’t mean to write a book. Chuck > > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
