Ewing News

September 08, 2021

Betty Fifer

This has been a beautiful week beginning the start of fall. The grass is still growing and usually you don’t do much mowing this time of year. Sharon and Donnie have had full house this week. Sharon’s brother Mike and his son Raymond brought his family up from New Orleans to get out of the heat and lack of water. It’s bad down there, over one hundred degrees and no electric.

Our community lost another member last week, Ned Daggs passed away. His mom was Betty Daggs who had passed away about a year ago. They have always been community minded folks, sympathy to his wife and daughters and families. 

On Sept. 4 we attended a memorial for Bert Krepps on a farm west of Canton. The memorial was conducted by his wife, our niece, Judy May Krepps. He died this past year and we all lost a great friend and a great nurse. It was a beautiful afternoon for his service, sitting out in the beauty of Missouri fields among family and friends.

September 11 is this weekend so I’ve wrote down where we doing that day twenty years ago. 

On the day of 9-11-01,  Don and myself were in our motor home in Columbus, Ohio on Highway 270 that takes you around Columbus going to Route 79, taking you up to the northern part of Ohio, heading to Canton,Ohio to work, (that’s another story about our lives on the north side of Columbus) The radio announced what had just happened in New York. At the first rest area we pulled in and turned on our TV and sat there and couldn’t believe what was happening. We saw the people jumping from the building and watched the building falling, it was 9-11 at 11 a.m. or a little later. 

We went to the next truck stop where many truckers were pulling into and we stayed there all night. We got a call from Huff’s art and craft promotions who we worked for, that the mall we were going to work in had been shut down and we couldn’t set up the craft show. The mall was going to be closed for several days and we didn’t open our show til Thursday morning. There were many groups of people gathering in prayer throughout the mall. 

The answer to last week’s question, What was Maywood’s first name? Longville.