Thursday, March 20, 2014
I knew Florence and Clayton Alshouse through my school friend Connie, one of their two daughters. Her parents were very hands-on parents, always wanting to know all their girls' friends and frequently having social gatherings with lots of food and fun at their house. I particularly remember the wonderful slumber parties. All through the years, they remembered the names of the girls' friends and Florence fondly reminisced them as well as her own life's friends and her family members; all those she had loved and who played an important part of her life. She even still talked about their sweet pet Mosey, the family cat. She spoke of their beginnings in the same house they built well over 50 years ago and lived in for the rest of their lives. But she also spoke of missing her husband Clayt, who preceded her to heaven and how she wanted to see him, which she knew she would again someday. She frequently sang her favorite song, 'I've Got a Mansion.' Well, now for the last time, she has closed her eyes on earth and opened them in heaven to her new address, where she does have that mansion and is reunited with Clayt and all her loved ones gone before her as well as meeting her Savior face to face. Those spoken wishes she knew she wanted have come to fruition. She will be dearly missed here but we can rejoice in thinking of the memories she leaves, but in knowing where she is and that she is happier now than any human can imagine.
