Herald Family History
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Last Post of 2008
So yet again we approach the end of a year.
Alot has happened this year for me (getting a new job, a new baby Zoey) and I can't help but to wonder what will happen next year. Not only that but how short next year will be.
This year has absolutely flown by.
I watched a discovery channel special on how your perception of time changes as you grow older and its seems as though this theory is holding true.
The holidays were lame.
Even the holidays were fleeting and slightly meaningless to me this year. Thanksgiving was a wash, Christmas was quiet and I sit here on New Years Eve wondering what I am going to do for supper instead of how to celebrate.
It just seems as though these things are a bit hollow for me now and are so over commercialized and stressed that it seems more of a pain than a joy. I like seeing my kids get excited over it but for me its just another day.
So, in short I resolve 3 things this year:
- To keep my physical activity at its current level or higher.
- To grow more technically.
- To make a concerted effort to keep my ever increasing cynicism in check.
Grandfather Obit
I just found this and decided I would post it on the eve of my daughter's birth to demonstrate how life really does come full circle.
TAZEWELL, Va. — Walter Curtis Herald, age 70, of Tazewell, Va., died Friday, March 14, 2008 at his home. Born July 3, 1937 at Tazewell, Va., he was a son of the late Jesse Franklin “Deck” Herald and Minnie Lee Hall Herald.
Curtis was a retired paint contractor. He attended the Tazewell Family Worship Center. Through his last illness his days were made more comfortable by the outstanding, compassionate care of Preferred Hospice and his personal care nurses.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one sister, Margaret Ellen Amburgey; three brothers, Howard Herald, Carl P. Herald, and Jesse Franklin Herald Jr.
Survivors include his wife, Janice Ann Herald; two daughters, Tina Heath and husband, Ellis of Marion, Va. and Karen Sheets and husband, Skip of Weber City, Va.; two sons, Gary Herald and wife, Pam of Salem, Va. and Pastor Rick Herald and wife, Lyn of Claypool Hill, Va.; three brothers, Clyde Herald and wife, Aileen, John E. Herald and William R. Herald all of Tazewell, Va.; eight grandchildren, Jason Herald, Nathan Herald, Justin Herald, Colten Herald, Jordan Herald, Brittany Heath, Braden Heath, and Tara Sheets; one great-grandchild, Erin Mae Herald.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Monday, March 17, 2008 at Peery & St.Clair Funeral Home Chapel in Tazewell, Va. with the Rev. Lawrence Hayes officiating. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. Grandsons serving as pallbearers will be Jason Herald, Nathan Herald, Justin Herald, Braden Heath, Colten Herald, and Dennis Hall, nephew.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday, March 17, 2008 after 12:30 p.m.
Closing
On the way home today from visiting my family over the Memorial Day Holiday I noticed a "for sale" sign in the parking lot of the private school I attended for the 1st eight years of my educated life (k-8). A bit struck by this I called my family to find out if indeed the school had closed or if I was misunderstanding something.
Sure enough, the school had closed.
Now some kids would rejoice if their school closed; however for some reason this really struck me as a stark reminder that nothing is Permanent. I had always envisioned that place as one of those forever icons that would live on throughout several generations; I apparently was mistaken. In a town where very little changes it seems that this particular piece of nostalgia will go down like most and fade into the history of my life.