Sunday, March 16, 2003
With Valna\'s passing, I feel like the our family has lost its heart and its history book. She was the oldest surviving Boles, and the repository of all the family lore. No one else, I am sure, will remember all the long lost grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, family friends, family events and migrations the way Valna did.
She was also one of the warm hearts of our family. She always seemed to have a smile for everyone and a cheerful outlook. She dispensed comfort in more solid ways too -- knit teddy bears and clowns, \'slickers\' and cobbler.
She will be unforgetable and irreplaceble, and I am deeply saddened that my kids won\'t have got to spend more time with her, to grow up with her around as I did.
