Margaret honors a friend

When I think of Adeline, I think also of her husband, Chester, because they worked together so well on everything.  There were all those dinner parties at their house with crowds of friends filling every room except the bed rooms.  There were all those trips to the National meetings of the American Council of the Blind Conference and Convention where we shared lunch together in their hotel room for the Arkansas caucus.  Then there were the times when they had their friends and ours, Bill and Erline Bauer, over to help Chester study the Sunday School lesson he was to teach the next Sunday.  Of course, this event included a serving of Adeline’s freshly baked pie together with cups of coffee.  When Adeline and Chester were able to participate in the Arkansas School for the Blind Alumni Association, they seemed to make everything run smoothly, and they really had a concern for the students at the school.  Their lives were filled with church activities, the ASB Alumni Association, the American Council of the Blind, Adeline’s job at the Hearing and Speech Clinic at the State Health Department, and Chester’s work in the Business Enterprise Program for the Division of Services for the Blind.  

Adeline and Chester were almost like parents to Travis and me and like grandparents to our children, Holly and Sterling.  ​We know Adeline and Chester are in a much better place, but we do miss them, and we will remember them the rest of our lives.