Jerry’s mother and father have died during the past two-and-a-half years. Some of you will remember that Jerry had to go home from the Marco Retreat last year because of the illness of her father (?). Gerald and Lora were outstanding, precious, committed Christians. They had been active in the church all during my relationship to the family. During their last years, unable to go to church, they became very faithful worshipers on Sunday morning with two or three of their favorite TV preachers. One of them was Frank Harrington, long-time minister of the Peachtree Road Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. Frank died a couple of years ago.

One Sunday morning, as they were listening to Frank, they were bolted to attention by his reference to their son, Randy, who had died five or six years earlier.…