Those People We Cherish: Lynn Marston and Family Needs Our Prayers

There are people that you just meet and know from the minute they say hello you will cherish for life. Such was the situation with Lynn Marston when I was faced with having to do the eulogies for our “adopted parents” Mr. Jim and Miss Ann Knipe in the past few years.

To say that I dislike doing eulogies would be an understatement, however I came to this calling when my Dad was in his final days and I recognized that I needed to somehow repay my debts as his son. My Dad and I never really “bonded” and that also would be an understatement. My Mom and Dad had a tumultuous relationship probably from day one when he married her at age 16 and she was 21. There was never a doubt in my mind that he married to get away from his home for whatever reasons I don’t know and won’t speculate. I was born several years later so this was not your typical “shotgun” wedding of the South.

Anyway, I owed my Father because even not bonded he did all the things a Father was supposed to do for his son except spend any quality time with him or be there to teach him Dad things. Therefore, when he passed on May 13, 1998 I chose to do his eulogy.

When the Knipes heard this eulogy along with my Mother’s they wanted me to perform their services. How could I turn down either of them since they had been truly surrogate parents to me and my wife? And that was when Lynn, “an angel of a person with an angel’s voice” and I met. Her songs and her hugs comforted me when I was the one expected to be strong and comforting others during those services. She even agreed to sit on the platform at the funeral home as I gave one of the eulogies and provided me strength to endure when my heart was broken.

I owe her a great debt and I am making a payment here today. I am asking all my friends and my fellow Unity Prayer Warriors world-wide to pray for her. Lynn has begun chemo and radiation treatments for an inoperable brain tumor.

Please send up many prayers and blessings for her as often as you can. She is one of the dearest and sweetest singing angels that I have ever known, as well as being a fellow “Tybee character” and there are not that many of us left!

Sending peace, love and grace …

Here is Lynn at and her talent:  http://youtu.be/-2E4D7k75Yk

Here is how you can help out on the meal train:

There is a website for meals:  www.mealtrain.com/k47060

and you can follow her journey on caringbridge.org

and you can send her a card at: P.O. Box 2687