Comments on: FRANK LILYARD, JR.

By: Ellen Kay Franey Long

Ellen Kay Franey Long — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:02:19 +0000

By some chance of fate I find this. I am the Daughter of Gladys Anne Lilyerd Franey [passed 04/2002].
My heart goes out to his loving family and friends. I only remember meeting uncle Frankie once, but was privileged to have had some very interesting conversations with him in Mother last days. I found him very historically inclined during our conversations. I have only lived in the SE so have had little contact with that side of my family.Even though they have always been in my mind off and on over the many years. I really appreciate finding this info on line. May god allways bless and keep his family and friends safe.
Thank you.
ellenlong@mindspring.com
Thank you.

By: Frances Rucks

Frances Rucks — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:32:36 +0000

I am sorry to find out through a christmas card send back to me in 2009 that Frank had died .
If someone would have told me I would have responded sooner then now. Frank and I did family history together and know pearl very will. He came to my parents 60 th anniverary. He is a very special person as will as all of the family. Frank M
lilyard jr and his father , Frank M LILYARD Senior are my Uncle’s. Hope you are are fine . My address is Frances Rucks 4861 maple st. Rockford MN. 55373
Thank You
Frances

By: Julianne (Blood)Johnson

Julianne (Blood)Johnson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:19:06 +0000

Corinne: Though many years have passed since last we made art and drank tea together in Virginia Beach, I have not forgotten you or your very special family. I too have recently lost my father at such an advanced age, but we are all our daddy’s daughters and it leaves a big space there that no one else can fill. I hope you had the opportunity to know your dad in his later years as I did mine. It is a gift. I hope to hear back from you.

By: Verus M. Langham, Jr.

Verus M. Langham, Jr. — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:28:02 +0000

Verus Milford Langham, Jr.
P. O. Box 1160
Gentry, AR 72734
(479) 736-9405

By: Verus M. Langham, Jr.

Verus M. Langham, Jr. — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:22:46 +0000

Pearl,
It has been many years and now, sadly, a lifetime ago that I had any communication with you. It grieves me to discover – at the tail end of a intensive search – that this tragic thing has occurred.
I never had the opportunity to really thank you for your encouragement and support….the special cherry cheesecakes you once prepared so lovingly for me while I stayed at yours and Frank’s home in Coronado. I am that young upstart Frank wanted so much to take under wing and send off to college, helped me through the first difficult years of being a sailor…connecting me up to my mother when ya’ll invited her out for a visit from Louisiana.
The project Frank began for me years ago in researching my father’s grave site has finally blossomed and I have done so much more than just know he is buried in France….I have become, as Frank always would say, one who appreciates history for its worth…”those who neglect it will make the mistakes made back there” (or words to that effect).
I wish that there were sufficient words that I could draw upon, words descriptive enough in so short a space to begin to tell you of my own loss of affection in the passing of one great guy…your husband of (….) years. And the grieving goes the next step as well, your lovely daughters….I think fondly of all of you after all these years.
When time goes by and you one day would like to why don’t you drop me a line and ask me what happened to me when I dropped off the face of the earth….you all did not deserve so crass a parting – there was a genuine affection, but my world at the time was dysfunctional to the core on family ties and issues of the heart.
But for memories of the heart, you as a family have remained at the very top of my all time VIPs although I’ve never shown you that in even the mildest manner imaginable. Just know that, as the lady Ella (above) stated, no one is alone when one considers that love IS indeed boundless…to go one step further. He never leaves us nor forsakes us…God is that love we all so desperately need to fil the void when a loved one is called home to the true paradise. May God bless you and keep you for many more years….(Mel)

By: Ella Williams

Ella Williams — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:32:22 +0000

Corinne-
My deepest heartfelt sympathies goes out to you and your family. The loss of a parent at no matter what the age is a grievous and painfull experience. I believe that love is the greatest force of the universe; it knows no boundries–life/death or even DNA. How many times have you seen an adopted child look like thier adopted parents or a couple who have been married many decades look like one another? I have found that when I bask in the memories of loved ones long departed I can feel the love they have for me. (present tense) It seems as though your father left you a large legacy of wonderful memories. My advise is that you find comfort by basking in those memories and feeling the love he has for you. (present tense)
Ella Williams
returning tcc student
I still hate computers