Re: (Fireflywatchers-Stories) The end has come

[Mart...@aol.com]

he will be missed

 

 

In a message dated 2/17/2009 9:03:42 P.M. Central Standard Time, jclif...@hotmail.com writes:

I am not too sure how many of you know of Phil (Fireflywatcher) Ford's
passing.  I received this info via a mutual friend.  I am sure all of
us will miss his wit and story telling.  One of the last things he
told me was that either a nephew or another author would finish a
couple of his stories.  But for some reason he never relayed this info
to the author.  The author is the mutual friend.  So we may not have a
conclusion to his stories.

-- On Sat, 1/24/09, George Grassby <geogr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
This is the obit from the local paper

> Philip
> Holman Ford III, 54
> 1/23/2009
> Philip
> Holman Ford III, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Philip and
> Doreece Wilson Ford, passed away in a Weatherford hospital
> January 22, 2009.
>
> Services will be at 2:00pm Saturday, January 24,
> 2009, in the Gouldbusk Cemetery Pavilion with Rev. John Keene officiating.
> Walker Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
>
> He was born October 17, 1954 in Abilene, Texas. He had a
> Bachelors Degree in Biology and was a painter. He was of the
> Catholic faith.
>
> Philip is survived by: his sister - Risa Weger of
> Poolville, Texas; niece - Gracie Weger of Bosier City,
> Louisiana; and Mylan Nicholson of Weatherford; three aunts -
> Mona Wilson and Marion Wilson, both of Gouldbusk, and Neta
> Wilson of Dallas; two uncles - Don Henry Ford Sr. of Austin
> and Jimmy Hemphill of Coleman; cousin - Don Henry Ford Jr.
> of Seguin; nephews - Marcus Weger of Tallahassee, Florida
> and Andrew Nicholson of Cottondale, Texas.
>
> Memorials can be made to the Gouldbusk Cemetery, 7793 FM
> 1026, Gouldbusk, Texas 76845.
>

The memorial, George said, is used for upkeep of the cemetery. When he
inquired about other charitable organizations one might send a
memorial gift to, he was told there were none, by Phil's sister, who
apparently was not on the best of terms with him.