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More From Tom Sorrells Honoring The Life Of Lucy Baxley

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Oct 19 2016 7:00 PM

More From Tom Sorrells Honoring The Life Of Lucy Baxley


Thoughts from today. Went to the City Cemetary in Ashford , Alabama today for the grave side service for Lucy Baxley. I know it had been an exhausting day for the family. They brought Lucy from Birmingham to Montgomery for her funeral service at Frazier Memorial Methodist, one of the largest churches in the state. I can only imagine the throngs of people who were there to say goodbye. I was one of the first to arrive and was greeted by Ed Malone, who was Bill Baxley's roommate when Bill was District Attorney here, and we were all so young. Then Lucy's daughter Becky pulled up, with Lucy's sister and gave me hugs. As the small crowd gathered I had of coursethe opotrinity to talk to many pepole that meant so much in my life. It was great to talk to Bill Baxley, Jim Smith Lucy's husband, having read my previous posts laughed and said, you know too much and you are telling too much. I was glad he was laughing. As I looked around and saw and talked to so many old friends I had not seen in some time, I thought about this gathering as it compared to what must have been the large crowd in Montgomery, filled with dignitaries from all over the state. Many of the people I saw today were the people of her beginnings, her roots. They knew her as a girl, they may have been her classmates at Harmon School in Pansy or Ashford High. Many talked to me about living down the road from her. They were proud of all her success as one of the best known figures in the state, but today they were there because above all she was their friend and neighbor , and she never acted like anything else. I stopped in Ronniie's Men And Women'Store in Cowarts to see Ronnie Brown,maybe the first man diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer that went into remission and he looked great. He always been a great role model in this community and now his testimony is even greater.


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