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Tribute to Momma CloudDancer

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Tribute to Momma CloudDancer

I think the best obit I've ever read...

Momma CloudDancer to Train For New Type Rating!
CloudDancer iz pickled TINK to announce that at 8:06 P.M. Central time on Dec.4th in the Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand Twelve -

Estelle Victoria Jacqueline (Sojak) CloudDancer - was accepted as a Cadet Basic Trainee candidate for the next class at the indisputibly unsurpassed and trooly UNIVERSALLY recognized, prestigious "St. Peter's Academy of ". Cadet Basic "Jackie", as she iz known to her friends, wuz immediatley greeted and welcomed to the spacious and sprawling campus by several friends, but as always, only had eyes for one man.

Instantly reunited with her decades long love (and St. Peter's "Class of 1996" alumni) Edward Francis CloudDancer, Momma CD was last seen draggin' her lover-boy this way and that as she raced from group to group. She wuz heard to be joyously squealing like a liddle girl when reunited with her brother, sister and her Mom and Dad.

My guess is - right at this very instant...she doesn't even remember my name. But that's okay. She will in a few hours after she settles down a liddle bit an' catches up on all the heavenly goings-on. That gurl LOVED to dance since way afore I wuz even a twinkle in Poppa CD's eye. In fact...ye-e-e-ah! Momma allus TOLD me that she very FIRST locked eyes with Poppa CloudDancer acrost a crowed USO dance hall floor one night in 1940. She SAID her girlfriend had to DRAG her there. She wuzn't "interested" in boys.

Poppa CD didn't want to go either and his barracks buddy kept badgering him to come along until Edward gave in. Just because it was easier to give in than to argue enny more and he didn't have ennything better to do. Momma CloudDancer said that as their eyes locked...hiz eyez just like in the movies. (The "genesis" of Yer's Trooly?)

Dad said when hiz eyes met hers...it hit him in the gut. "That iz the girl I'm gonna' marry!" Neither one ever looked at another since.

Hey. You guyz! I LOVE you! Have a BLAST tonight CloudDancin'. Yer kid iz goin' to bed. I need sum sleep !

Mom....

Momma CD Born April 29th, 1920 - REBORN - December 4th, 2012


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Re: Tribute to Momma CloudDancer

Yes it is, a celibration not a comiseration, love it.
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I hope I could have such an outlook when my progenitors pass.
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I hope I could have such an outlook when my progenitors pass.


I expect it is mostly a "facade" that he is wearing......
But, I agree, it is a good attitude if you can wear it.

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Beautiful!
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Re: Tribute to Momma CloudDancer

Cool! I had to write Ma's just 3 weeks ago, and it wasn't easy. But here's an excerpt you might like:
"She followed him from post to post as he trained to fly in the Army Air Corps. Her very first airplane flight was with him, riding in the bomb bay of a B-25 at La Junta!"

Ma flew with me many times. My one regret is that her wish for one last flight with me didn't happen before her final flight.

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