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Funeral for a Wave

July 4, 2011by Val Sanford 3 Comments

Elizabeth Maloney Schensted June 30, 1929 ~June 27, 2011 Liz’s son Dave came into the make-shift chapel where the Mass for Liz was going to be said.  He was carrying […]

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Death, women, World War II

Sgt. Roth – The Actual Story of Uncle Ted

May 30, 2011by Val Sanford 1 Comment

Uncle Ted joined the Washington State National Guard in 1936, the first year the National Guard size was increased since 1926.  He  had wanted to join the Civilian Conservation Corps […]

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Memorial Day

May 25, 2009by Val Sanford Leave a comment

When I was growing up nearly every house on our block and in our small neighborhood of La Crescenta, California hosted an American Flag on Memorial Day.  Sunday night my […]

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father, Memorial Day, war, World War II
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Eulogy

August 21, 2008by Val Sanford 2 Comments

Joy cometh in the morning, the scriptures tell us. And this morning we are here to celebrate the life of my father, Lowell Todd Sanford.

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cribbage, Death, Family, friendship, grief, marriage, personal, World War II
Taps

Farewell, Dad.

August 9, 2008by Val Sanford Leave a comment

  August, 8, 2008, Lowell Todd Sanford was laid to rest at Riverside National Cemetery, honored for his service to our country.  The Riverside staff went out of their way to […]

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Death, Family, grief, World War II

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Do a little more of that work which you have sometimes confessed to be good, which you feel that society and your justest judge rightly demands of you. Do what you reprove yourself for not doing. Know that you are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with yourself without reason. Let me say to you and to myself in one breath, Cultivate the tree which you have found to bear fruit in your soil. - Henry David Thoreau

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