Sharon Davison
To Sally's children,
Your mother was so good to me. As a woman and a mother, she took care of me and was a crucial support line for me at a critical time in my children's lives. At first, she was kind to me as a very poor neighbor in a difficult situation. Then she helped me by giving me the luxury of bringing my baby to her beautiful home which she paid me well to help clean. Josh would sleep while the vacuum whirled around him. She even loaned me her daughter's car during my most desperate time after which, in my usual, depressed procrastinator state, never got around to thanking her and letting her know how much I appreciated her. As I drive past that curve to visit my eldest son's reclaimed little 5 Acre patch down Carter Rd in Strickler where he was raised as a child, I look down the Goforth driveway and remember a woman who lived there named Sally that I so admired and wished I could have been more like her as a woman and a mother.
And on a closing thought, when I was 22 I had a good and strong mother-in-law who through her pain would get up every morning and open the newspaper to the obituary page and for her grandchildren, twinkle her eyes, smile, and say, "Well, I'm not in there today"..... I became a life long obit reader from then on and I've seen some very inaccurate obituaries in the paper and some down right laughable lies in them. So, from myself to those who may not have had the good fortune to know Sally, her children's tribute to their mother was spot on.
With grateful sincerity and appreciation,
Sharon Davison
Jeremiah Estes
Josh Estes