Beatrice Crew

Today I was sitting in church and we sang the "Old Rugged Cross" and a memory from a LONG time ago came to me.
When I was 4 we moved to Marion Indiana where we lived until I was 9. I don't remember if I went on a lot of visitations with my Dad and just don't remember or what. But there is one lady I remember visiting. Beatrice Crew. I really don't remember to much about her, just three things:
1. She liked to give us kids half dollars I think they were
2. She made the greatest fruit cake in the world. That stuff was AWESOME.
3. Every time we visited she asked my Dad to sing the "Old Rugged Cross."

And even though I was a little kid...every time I hear that song I think about her.
It was SOOOOOOOOO special to her...it wasn't just a song to her like it probably is to a lot of people who don't have a clue what they sang in church the week before. To Bea Crew it was a hope of what was coming.
I know she died a long time ago but she clung to the cross until the day she did and I bet she's up there know grinning and wearing that crown and worshipping her Savior.

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