Time Machine: Lillian Matthews Shaw

(Comments are from 2019)

On this day in 1988 a great blessing entered my life. Lillian Shaw you were and are a great joy to your ol’ man. I am so happy for the person you have become. You are thoughtful, talented, kind, and loving. You are wonderful writer, an amazing actress and singer, and, dadgum it, a doggone good dancer too!

I learned that day that the human heart is greatly expandable. My heart was bulging with love for he bookends in this picture just a few minutes before, then like magic it expanded to love the bundle in the middle no less than the other two.

On the phone with Granny and Granddaddy.

 

I was so proud of yo' Mama! Lordy that beautiful woman worked to get you here. Labor ain't called that for no reason.

Brannon was so sleepy, and so happy to have a little sister! BUT she did sneeze right in your face to introduce herself.

How I love this photo.

I love you, yes I do, I love you… beyond words.

This delivery room nurse was wonderful. She had also been on duty five years before for the birth of our elder daughter Brannon Shaw! We were glad to see a familiar face.

Lillian Matthews Shaw

 

Time Machine: Washington June 1988

From the Rome News Tribune June 7, 1988:

Kaleidoscope students in nation’s capital

Kaleidoscope, the Floyd County schools system’s program for gifted students, sponsored its fourth annual eighth-grade study trip to Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital, in April.

The students spent three full days touring Mount Vernon, the Smithsonian Institute, the Navy Museum, the Library of Congress, all the major monuments and other places. They spent half an hour on the floor of the House of Representatives talking with Congressman George Darden. Many students listed the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Vietnam Memorial and the Washington Cathedral as highlights of the trip.

Students attending, shown above on the steps of the Capitol along with the trip’s chaperones, were: Andrea Barnes, Nicole Range, Laura Foss, Nikki Poulos, Deana Conti, Heaven Hight, Mika Woodall, Melanie Hurst, Ryan Adams, Tim O’Kelley, Doug Brown, Chris Hamley, Shane Ledbetter, John Moore, Mary Boggs, Stacy Stephens, Stephanie Geraldson, Jennifer Smith, Luanne Thomas, Amy Langham, Jennifer Marsh, Jennifer Bojo, Bobby DeHart, Jason Howell, Dipak Patel, Shawn Davis and Burt McCollum.

Terrell's note: The grown-ups include Patsy Lassiter,  Jean Love, Jean Palmer, Terrell Shaw, a couple of folks from Congressman Darden's office, I think. I do not see Anita Stewart or Kathy Steinbruegge -- were they on this trip? 

Here are some details to help us ID as many folks as possible. I will appreciate help!

Mrs. Jean Love was a wonderful teacher and a good friend. She had an amazing storehouse of sports trivia. I knew her peripherally as Connie's mother when I was in high school at West Rome. How interesting to become her friend and fellow teacher years later.

Here are three more teachers. Jean Palmer (in sunglasses), Patsy Lassiter (with the camera) and I think it is Ed Hawkins between them (also in shades).

Y'all will recognize the handsome fellow at the left as me, and Congressman Darden in the tie.

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L_R: 1. Jean Love     2. ??    3. Ed Hawkins     4. Jean Palmer   5. Patsy Lassiter  

L_R: 1.John Houston Moore     2. Stacy Thompson     3. Mary K. Boggs

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L-R: 1. Mary K. Boggs    2.     3.    

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Facebook Comments from 2009:

Erskine Thompson
Ah, yes...the trip to Washington that I didn't get to take. Oh, well. At least that means I'm not in this picture. 

Terrell Shaw
Was this your year to go? I'm sorry you missed it.

Erskine Thompson
Yes, this was my group. Not sure why, exactly, I didn't get to go - I can only assume that we didn't have the money for the trip. Oh, well. I got to go the next year with the high school band, so at least I can say I've been to DC.

Terrell Shaw
I went with the West Rome Band in '63, I think.

Terrell Shaw
Tag some of the folks for me if you get the chance.

Erskine Thompson
Oh, that could be fun.

Terrell Shaw
Can you find Stacy?

Erskine Thompson
I think I see her, but I'd have to find her copy of this picture to be sure. She has one that's in color, but it's been a while since I've seen it.

Burt McCollum
Heh. Wow. I'd completely forgotten about this trip.
I remember a huge sculpture of a man rising up from the ground, as if from a grave...

Terrell Shaw
It was called "The Awakening" down past the Jefferson Memorial at the tip of Potomac Park. Here is a recent picture taken from the web:

This is a photo off the web of "The Awakening" that Burt mentioned and that we always veiwed when we took groups to DC. It has since been moved.

Here's the website: http://dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0001120.htm

Kimberly Horn commented on this picture: I remember going to see it, & a couple was getting wedding pictures taken there! To where did they move it?

Terrell Shaw
So which one is Burt?

Shawn Davis
I just tagged Burt. That is the coolest picture. Notice the girls with the big 80's hair and the guys with the blue jean jackets!

John Houston Moore
Yes!!! Butt-cut!!

Mary K Boggs
Oh my stars!!! The style of my hair, or lack of style, is HIDEOUS!! What great memories!!! And I loved that sculpture too!

John Houston Moore
Shane has been tagged...

Time Machine: Rachel Jones, Our New Choir Director/Organist

 Today was Rachel Jones first Sunday as choir director and accompanist at Trinity United Methodist Church.

Time Machine: Mexico Beach August 1987

We had been here the summer before with Daddy. Now he was gone and we came again. It was bittersweet to be there without him. I am adding these pictures in 2023; they were in a box of pictures that have been stored for several years.  I would welcome more pictures from this trip (and any other family pictures!) from my siblings. 

I love this picture of my youngest sister, Sharlyn Beth Shaw with her daughter Amanda Ruth Hearn. It is so hard to accept (in 2023) that Beth is gone. 

Steven Dow Turrentine with his girlfriend, LaDonna Raburn, hunting shells.

I took advantage of Joey's predicament to attach horns to his noggin. Joseph Thomas Johnston and Charles Terrell Shaw.

My sister Joan with her son Steve. Lynda Joan Shaw (Turrentine) with Steven Dow Turrentine)

Jessica Ruthanne Shaw  (Is that Benjamin Allan Lewis behind her?) 

Steve and LaDonna outside the Windsong condos at Mexico Beach.

Vicki Brown Shaw caught smiling with Jessica Ruthanne Shaw on a seafront balcony of Windsong condos. 

L-R: Deborah Ruth (Debi) Shaw (Lewis, Vicki Brown (Shaw), Jessica Ruthanne Shaw, Lillian Ophelia Wilkerson (Shaw), Sarah Ruth Baird (Shaw) This is on the oceanfront balcony at Windsong condos.

James Edward Shaw. 

I think Uncle James may have been feeding the gulls.

LaDonna and Larisa Carron Johnston (Feathersone)  -- I think.

Carol with Lisette

Steve with Amanda

L-R: Debi, Joan, Vicki, Jessica

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Time Machine: Georgia Democratic Committee 1987

 

Newspaper Archive: Democratic Hall of Fame

 

Mary Elizabeth Baird Shepherd: September 26, 1912 - November 12, 1985

 

The Bookmobile

 

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

 

by Sarah Ruth Baird Shaw, August 11, 1985

This is a transcription of two handwritten pages. The original wording and punctuation were retained where legible.

Page 1

Yesterday, in Aug 1985, my 74 yr old sister & I went in early to see our sister for the first time after her disfiguring facial surgery. The doctor & her nurse had tried to prepare us for what we would see — the swelling. We were not prepared — My sister took one look — turned pale and started for the door but turned back — came to the bed and told Mary how much she loved her and would stay with her. I held Mary’s hand (strapped down beside her) and stroked her brow and still auburn hair and told her that I loved her.

I remembered what she had said before going into surgery. “I asked God to go with me — and He said He would.”

Later I was just overwhelmed with the fragileness of life and I ached and cried with my sister and two

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of my brothers (age 80 & 71) and a sister-in-law, and several nephews & nieces.

Then in prayer this morning, I remembered Victor Frankl’s experience in a prison camp — his experience of the presence of God in incredible beauty in the midst of the most gruesome of circumstances — frozen feet — protruding bones — frostbite — hunger — lice —

Our minds are too little to comprehend it — but if the eternal God is with us — we can not just endure — but can actually experience incredible peace and joy in the midst of suffering — and are better off than the most beautiful & healthy young person in the world if that person is lost — spiritually diseased & spiritually dead.

Family identification notes

The patient was our aunt, Mary Elizabeth Baird Shepherd. The accompanying 74-year-old sister was very likely our Aunt Vek (Vera Mae Baird Loyd).  Mary and Vek lived very near each other in Rockmart during the last years of Mary’s life. The brothers (ages 80 and 71) were probably Uncle Bill (William Bogan Baird) and Uncle Charlie (Charles Morrison Baird), both living in the Atlanta area. The sister-in-law may have been Aunr Ruth, Uncle Charlie's wife. These names were not written on these pages.

Editorial note: 

This was a very rough first draft with words crossed out, words written above the live, and so forth. Since the word "type" is written above the page it is likely Mother rewrote this later, but I have not found it.