I would like to begin by wishing at least three of my longtime friends a happy birthday coming up. Mrs. Hazel King Combs will turn 87 Thursday, April 26. Then on Friday, April 27, Mrs. Annie Chafin West will turn 95. Both are members of Phillips Mill Baptist Church. On Monday, April 30, Mrs. Daisy Huff Nash of Philomath will be 101. Both Mrs. West and Mrs. Nash worked together for a number of years at the Royal Manufacturing Company in Washington. ..Coming up at Phillips Mill Baptist Church Thursday night, May 3, at 7 p.m., there will be a Georgia Baptist Association evangelism training meeting. This is for churches of the 4th district. There will be evangelism training meetings held each night during the week in different churches including all five districts. It is hoped that it will make it easier for more churches to take advantage of attending. Always feel welcome at Phillips Mill if Thursday night suits you better. We are never too old to learn or share. ..On Sunday, May 6, Phillips Mill Baptist Church plans to honor our graduating seniors with a baccalaureate service and covered dish lunch. If you have a child who would like to participate please let Sherri McAvoy know. Graduation can be an exciting time. Best wishes to all. ..Joyce Ann Blackburn, Marion Poss, and Frances Ogletree visited Pete Poss in Wills Memorial Hospital one day. Afterwards, Joyce Ann carried Marion Poss and Frances Ogletree out to lunch then they all enjoyed a visit with Bernice McAvoy at Wilkes Health Care Center. ..Warren and Lois Nunn, Henry and Faye McAvoy, and Dorothy Ann Saxon visited Dan, Mildred, and Jerry McAvoy Sunday afternoon. Other relatives visiting during the week were Mary Hawes, Marvin "Hoppy" McAvoy, and Billy McAvoy. A nice surprise on Sunday morning, April 15, which was homecoming day at nearby Sandy Cross Baptist Church was a pop call from a former pastor, Rev. John King, and his sweet wife of 52 years, and they always enjoy their pastor, Rev. Robert Rayner, stopping by every chance he gets. ..Rev. John Marshall King and wife Frances Dailey King of Monroe had an enjoyable and exciting day with the people of Sandy Cross Baptist Church for their 2007 homecoming. They felt real honored to be invited and remembered with such love. Of course, the good food helped top the day off. Rev. and Mrs. King were a good team serving the Lord with gladness and sincerity during the 14 years they served at Phillips Mill Baptist Church and the years they also served at Sandy Cross, 1964-1977, and however he could in the Georgia Baptist Association. Remember Harper's 5&10 in Washington? Frances clerked there for some time. The Kings visited Mrs. Mary Nell Denard and Virginia Hunter that afternoon. ..A memorial service was held Saturday, April 21, at Phillips Mill Baptist Church for Freda Moore, wife of the late John Moore, son of the late Mark Allen Moore and Essie West Moore of Phillips Mill. John was one of the younger boys of their 12 children. Sincere sympathy is extended to all the family. I was unable to attend or do anything for the family, but I did get to sit in our yard and wave as they passed by. Essie was my first cousin. She never missed seeing that I had a birthday cake after my mother died. Even the year she passed away they brought me a nice plate of sliced cake that different ones had brought them, and the first thing she said was, "You thought you wouldn't get a cake this year, didn't you." ..A longtime friend of mine and many others who worked at "Old Almar," Allie Irene Hammond Harrison of Lexington, died Monday, April 16, at Quiet Oaks Nursing Home in Crawford. She was 94 years old. She was a native of Oglethorpe County and was preceded in death by her husband, Murray Harrison. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Lord and Stephens Funeral Home Oglethorpe Chapel. Burial was at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church. She is survived by two daughters and their husbands, Glynda and Sammy Escoe of Bogart and June and Frank Robertson of Griffin; and a sister, Lorena H. Dixon of Elberton. ..Congratulations and best wishes to Megan Hunter who was among the winners of the Young Georgia Authors writing competition who were recognized at the recent Wilkes County Board of Education meeting. They received certificates and savings bonds. Megan is a granddaughter of Frankie and Melissa Hunter and greatgranddaughter of Virginia Stevens Hunter of Phillips Mill. ..I would like to thank each of you who have been remembering Morrison and me in your thoughts and prayers and with cards. There was no Tyrone news last week because I was in ICU at St. Mary's Hospital in Athens. On Friday morning I got up to go to the bathroom and found out I could hardly move my right leg and arm and sick as a wildcat. It didn't take long to agree to calling 911. Well, I got a lot of attention at Wills Memorial Hospital. No one stayed seated. They were so kind, working to get me stable enough to transfer to St. Mary's Hospital. This trip was a "package deal" as I had hit bottom with depression and congestive heart failure. I received a heart catheterization on Tuesday and returned home Tuesday night. I will go to the heart doctor Wednesday of this week for more information and check-up. I have not been seeing visitors, only my family. It has come time for me to see about Priscilla for the time being. I still love everyone. God has been so good to me and my family. ..Remember. God loves you too.