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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. 
Comments: Charlotte, I do agree with you that moving on is an individual thing and so is grieving, I certainly did not mean by the written word that we just need to move on, I was thinking more in line with what that individual would possibly say to us. I lost my dearest and best friend Sherry Franklin-Blackwell in 2007 from brain cancer, I was devastated and still to this day think of her laughter daily. A time in my life with her will never be forgotten. I certainly did not mean for any of you to not post your grieving of the loss of Mary that is for sure. I remember her with so much laughter and fun on all our SOC cruises and trips together, she was the life of the party and a sweet friend to me. She will never be forgotten either. Would love to hear from other Socites the impression she made on them through out the years, each one will be different, each one will be out of love for her and each of us will miss her terribly. Sometimes when I write, I need to re-read how I phrase things because it can be taken the wrong way and I surely do not mean for that to occur. The night of Mary's passing, I had another severe seizure and light stroke again, I mean well, but sometimes I phrase things that can be taken in different aspects. Hopefully all will know I meant it in a loving manner. God Bless.
Comments: Really..Great Posts.. Keep it up...G..
Comments: Grieving is different for each person. it is a very individual process. Time will help, but the loss will always leave a hole where that friend lived in our life. However, I think our memories help us especially when we can think of how funny or talented that person was. "Moving on" is different for each of us and we grieve as long as it takes for time to help us no matter what anyone thinks or says
Comments: Peaches, thank you for posting your thoughts and info about our class mates. I am so sad to say that I will be in Chicago on the date of Mary Irene's memorial. I know we can not PLAN these things under these circumstances, but wish I could be there for her family. I am so glad that Jan Netherland and I visited Mary in her home last May and then Jan had her to her house for lunch a little later. I felt then that it might be the last time I was able to hear Mary laugh and play the piano...her hands and fingers hurt while she played Jan's beautiful piano, but it did not stop her. Mary was truly one of a kind and we are all so fortunate to have had her in our lives no matter if we were best friends,just acquaintances, or just watched her cheer in high school. Mary made a difference in so many lives.
Comments: Peaches, I think, and this is just my opinion, that all the classmates right now are all grieving over the loss of Mary, but looking at the Memorial Page on this site, and the 65 site, we have lost so many classmates, we are all sad when they leave us, but I also believe that Mary and each of them would say you need to go on and move forward, we are in a better place now. Live your life to the fullest, have no regrets and they will all see us again. We do have a great group of people from SOC, great friends for life and will see our dear friends in our future once again. God Bless you and the SOC classmates.
Comments: I have noticed when I post something sad people do not post after me. Please continue. These are my thoughts and my feelings I wanted to share with my classmates. Please continue your posts!!!!!
Comments: I am grieving over the loss of three of my dearest friends from Zumwalt but on the other hand I am picturing the three of them together right now rejoicing together with our Lord and Saviour. Three years ago today, we lost Sonny Barney (SOB) Kemp, two years ago yesterday we lost Jan Fincher Tanco and now Mary McCord Bach. We had such special times together. I just can't believe all three around the same time. Please remember Brenda in your prayers and her family and Jan Fincher's family. Be sure and tell your friends how much you love them often. I hear many of our friends telling each other that and remember that SOCites are very special people who do love each other.
Comments: I have one other Mary story that is dear to my heart. We were at a sock hop at Zumwalt and Mary came running up to me and said "Wanda, try outs for the drill team (Lionettes???) are opening up. Why don't you try out?" I asked Mary if she had ever seen me dance. She said no and pulled me out on the gym floor. That was when it was ok for girls to dance together. Of course, Mary could have had any boy there, but I never had the courage to ask. Anyway, I was making a feeble effort to keep up with the music. The look on Mary's face was exactly like that of Kevin Bacon looking at his two left footed friend in Footloose. When the music ended, she put her arms around my shoulder's and said "That's ok. We'll find something else for you to do." So I joined the choir. I have smiled and laughed at that memory for years and years. Folks, I can't chew gum and walk across the floor at the same time.
Comments: I first met Mary Irene in the 8th grade at Sara Zumwalt Jr. High School. I came from Lisbon and she came from Clara Oliver (I think). Mary and I were never as close as some of our other classmates were with her, but we became friends by sharing classes, sitting at the same lunch table, in study hall, etc. I don't think Mary every met a stranger and she showed love to everyone. We were in Choir class together and our teacher was putting a girls quartet together. I don't remember who else tried out for that quartet, but both Mary and I did. Mary, of course, made it with that beautiful voice. On the other hand, while I could sing pretty well, I could not then nor can I very well now, harmonize. Well who ever heard of a quartet that didn't harmonize. Needless to say I did not make it. Of course I was disappointed, and had tears in my eyes. Afterward, Mary caught up to me out in the hall, put her arms around me and said (I have never forgotten this!) "Wanda, I won't say I'm sorry I made it, but I am very sorry that you didn't make it." She simply held me for a few more seconds and let me cry. I have never nor will I ever forget that single act of kindness. That WAS Mary Irene McCord. I love you, I miss you, I will never forget you and I will see you on the other side, Mary Irene.
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