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Comments: This video 'Works' on this site...now.. I'm viewing it on a Laptop,
Comments: Mary was always always the leader of our dances. I can follow but I can not lead.
Comments: When I tried to view the video on my cell phone I could not get it...but tried on my P C and got it...Lonnie it was wonderful...Mary so loved all opportunities to be with old friends and loved to dance...she was always the last one standing...wonderful memories.
Comments: Lynell, I tried the site you gave...couldn't get there.....maybe this Ipad????
Comments: Lonnie the video is a great tribute to a great lady.!
Comments: Whoever deleted the prior website just thought they'd erased it. Go here http://www.techzoomin.com/like-to-see-what-your-favourite-website-looked-like-in-the-past/ and type in socbears.com. Anything that happens on the web stays on the web, sort of like Las Vegas. You'll have to look at an agreement page, then another screen will pop up with a calendar on it. You may need to type the URL again. Click one of the highlighted dates, and you can see the old website. Also, I saved our prior guestbook from this site with a link on our Fun Things page. Many of our classmates have done a lot to keep us all together. There have been plenty of labors of love!
Comments: Lonnie, this was fantastic and a labor of love. I do not know you did it so fast. I would love to get this to Mary's children. Would that be possible. i will get there email is this can be done. Lonnie, you are so talented and give so much to all of us. I have a colletion of most of you videos. Thank again!
Comments: Wanda, the first GB was started by the very talented Jerry and Patricia Vessels. Bill and Lynell contributed to it (correct me here Lynell). It was a wonderful site and at first geared to get us all involved and in touch for our 40th reunion. Gee. that was a long time ago...huh??? It was a beautiful web site. Lynell wrote the front introductory page with wonderful memories of our days at SOC. Sadly, after the reunion, it became mired with mean anonymous posts and plagued with spammers. Then, somehow it was mysteriously TOTALLY ERASED without a trace. That was a very puzzling and sad day for all of us and especially the Vessels and all who had worked on it. We went without a guest book for a while and then...tah dah..... Lynell volunteered to start a new one..this one (I can't imagine why she would do this thankless job except for her love for our class). THANK YOU LYNELL FOR TAKING THE TORCH and keeping us in touch with one another. Welcome back to the guest book Wanda.
Comments: I have not been on our SOC 63 site in far too long. I just spent a few minutes opening up all the different places we have. If you have a few minutes, go read the Guest Column. I had forgotten about writing a couple of columns there. They are all good. Go take a look at our Memoriam/Dedication page. Smile at your memories and thank God for having been even a small part of all these wonderful people's and each other's lives. If my information and my memory serves, Lynell Garrett Smith and Bill Akin started this site and other classes soon followed. I won't stay gone so long again.
Comments: How do I go about downloading Lonnie's video? A work of love, Lonnie. Thank you.
Comments: Lonnie, do you mind if we old folks draft you into the Class of '63? (Optimal word being "Class")?
Comments: Thank you Lonnie.
Comments: Dear Lonnie, That video was the most wonderful remeberance I have ever seen. Everyone was so lovely and it was thrilling to see our Mary having such a great time! Thank you for this beautiful tribute. My heart is so full of wonder and loving thoughts of Mary. I know there is no pain and suffering around her now. She is praising her Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and reflecting His Glorious Radiance! Thank You again for the vidio! Donna Gwin Libhart
Comments: Thank You Lonnie. The video was great & captured the essence of Mary! Another great SOCite has left us too soon!!
Comments: Lonnie, thanks for fixing the link to the video you did to honor Mary. Now all we need to do is scroll down this page a bit and hit the start button. Thank you, Lonnie.
Comments: Oh, Richard, Thank you for sharing that wonderful photo of your Mother, Mary and yourself!. I lost my beautiful Mother, Elizabeth Inez Gwin, on September 28, 2008. Her hair was like spun silver and her smile was just as wonderful. Put these memories in your heart and hold on to them, as they are precious amd touching. I was always Mom's little girl and she always told me to behave, as "she wasn't too old to give me a spanking". I am so glad I had a godly Mother and Father who showed me the right path. We went to Sunday School and Church had a wonderful childhood. Just know that we continue to hold your family in our prayers and ask for God's blessings on you all. Donna Gwin Libhart
Comments: Now the Vimeo site for Mary's Video is open. It will be changed back later for personal reasons. It is downloadable for 3 size versions so you may put a copy on your computer or disc.
Comments: I will miss my big sister. She was a rock of stability. Below is a picture of Mary with our late mother and me in December, 2008. 
Comments: I could not open it on face book.
Comments: Charlotte, I had the same problem, and Lonnie's trying to figure it out. The video is great, so you can see it if you go to FB to the SOC website and look at his link to it. He tells you the password, too. Lonnie comes through once again!
Comments: Lonnie The video link says SORRY you don't have permission to view. Is it me or can others view it? I seem to have probs opening your videos.
Comments: Here is a video that I made for those that love Mary McCord. Password is Mary.
Comments: The standard amount of time for grieving a loved one...is a year..Then you still grieve,it just gets less painful..after that point. The grief and sorrow never goes away entirely.. (This has been documented and written about in books..)
Comments: Peaches, we understand. love you!
Comments: Hey, guys it has only been 2 days since Mary passed. Of course, I will be very sad and yes sometimes still in tears for a while now. I am thinking of Mary in Heaven with all her family friends and Jesus Christ now. I am only sad because I will miss her in my life and talking with her so often!
Comments: I totally agree with Lynell. I would also like to say to Tanya that I feel I know your heart and I almost never misunderstand what you are saying. I sometimes have the same problem with people who misunderstand me. I don't think you should worry about it because most people think of you as a very kind person. Now, Peaches I am sorry you are suffering so much grief. We should all try to celebrate Mary's life and count ourselves lucky to have known such a wonderful person. Years ago, Memorial Services were to pray for people's souls to go to heaven. Nowadays, we try to celebrate and discuss what that person meant to us and their life's accomplishments. We should all be grateful for having known Mary. She meant so much to all of us. Char, they kept saying Big Tex was an electrical fire.
Comments: I am so glad Mary Irene McCord Bach came my way. They say there are two types of people. The one type comes in the room and says "I'm here, aren't you glad I came". The second type comes in the room and says "Hello. I am so glad you came, you are just the person I wanted to see". That was Mary. She treated everyone with that same enthusiasm and going out of her way to bring you comfort and smooth the way for you. She did not like to see anyone in distress. She could difuse bad situations with her lovely smile, and there never was a time when she did not give someone an insight into her relationship with her Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ!. She was a wonderful witness for Him even back then. She was never ashamed to share her love for the Lord. I first met Mary in 1960 at Sarah Zumwalt. She was a force to be reckoned with even then. I had been in an average class for the first two six-weeks of the term and then I was called to the office and told to bring all of my books. According to the counselor, I had made a very good showing on our aptitude tests and was not "living up to my full potential" in the lower class. I was really upset and asked if they were sure they were looking at MY test! I was really quite happy where I was. I NEARLY FAILED the next six-week period. Mrs. Little, the most precious lady, elected Mike Thornhill to tutor me. I nearly drove him crazy!! I finally grasped the concept he was trying to pound into my head, and I passed (barely!). Mary helped me in study hall and was so patient The most caring person I have ever met. To her loved ones and church friends. she lived her life as an example of the truest witness of our Lord Jesus Christ The Love of the Lord was her standard and she now is clothed in the robe of purest white and claiming her promised position to Glorify Our Heavenly Father. We have no doubt that she is outsinging those Angels! Love, Donna Gwin Libhart
Comments: I have lost too many friends over the years to begin to count. Grief is grief, and from my experience it can go away quickly or linger and make a hole in the heart. It can leave the griever feeling guilty for not feeling it at all. My hope is that the bereaved all over the world are comforted by whatever it takes to make them feel better. Memories can be such a comfort. SOCites lost a beautiful friend in Mary. She was smart, talented, popular, pretty, and knew what do do in any situation. How I envied those gifts in my youth. Mary was nice to everybody. But I look through that list on our Memoriam Page and see others who brought light to me also. May they all rest in peace. It makes me happy to think about beautiful Mary, with a pitch pipe, getting those off-key angels in tune. She tried it once with me to no avail, so I suppose I'll never be in the angel chorus.
Comments: Sometimes things are better left unsaid...........  I was so sorry to learn about Big Tex. I read where his hands and boots did not burn. I hope it was an accident. Does anyone know the cause of the fire?
Comments: You're doing great..Tanya.. I always 'edit after the fact'...Too many people can 'vouch' for this... G. 
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