Carol's Pond Oct 9, 2021



A tribute to another great lady, Lorna Bailey


Lorna's uncle, Charles Bailey was married to my first cousin, Louise Fivecoat, so are Lorna and I cousins? I don't know and I don't care. Lorna was a great friend, confidant and a great lady. Lorna lived in Alabama but for a short period in 1991 she moved to Lebanon. She had worked as a locksmith and was extremely helpful in helping me get A Better Lock Company up and going. She went through all the tool catalogs with me, pointing out the tools I had to have, tools that would be nice to have and what I did not need at all. She saved me a lot of money.


In January this year, she came from her home in Alabama and was my nurse while I recovered from cataract surgery. Because of Parkinson's I shake too bad too put drops in my eyes. Lorna was a great nurse. We had a great time while she was here. We tormented her sons, telling them I lived in a nudist colony and that they passed out free condoms and Viagra, played nude volleyball in the pool; anything we could think of. We had a lot of laughs.


But yesterday, the Lord said come to me and she did. She had been battling Covid but had been moved to rehab earlier in the day.  They had to take her back to the ICU.  Her sons were with her.  I miss her.



Later,

Rex

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  1. Nancy KissackOctober 11, 2021 at 6:36 AM

    I'm so sorry to hear you lost a great friend and cousin. She sounds like a wonderful lady. I bet she's smiling down at the same memory of the nudist colony joke. It's nice to have those good memories.

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    1. RexOctober 11, 2021 at 1:31 PM

      Thank you, and it is. I told her son yesterday that we had been pulling his chain and he laughed.

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