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**
SADLY, TWO HONOUREES PASSINGS !!
** MAX
NORMAN’s
PASSING !!
I Received word
via E-mail on 10-Mar-11 that a
longtime friend and
splendid Belleeker friend of mine
had passed on !! Max was our 9th
Honouree, inducted
in 1994 and I remember fondly our touring of Ireland
in 1997, with him keeping the bus entertained with
his Belleek
enthusiasm as we toured the lovely
countryside !!
His obituary
follows :
MAX E. NORMAN
Max E. Norman,
86, Overland Park, KS passed away
March 9,
2011. Visitation 10-11 a.m., memorial
service 11 a.m. Sat., April 2, at
Mt. Moriah &
Freeman Chapel, 10507 Holmes. Entombment
Mt. Moriah
Cemetery. Memorials to Alzheimer's
Association ., 3846 W. 75th St.,
Prairie Village,
KS 66208.
Published in
Kansas City Star on March 13,
2011
Read more:
** DAVE
CLARKE’s PASSING !!
Dave and his
lovely devoted wife Philomena, were
our 21st.
co-honourees, inducted during our last
Convention in New Jersey !! He
will be sadly missed
by all Belleekers !! His obituary follows :
John David
Clarke
John David
Clarke, 82, died on Friday, April 22,
2011, at University Hospital in Newark, N.J.
Funeral from
the Parow
Funeral Home, 185 Ridge Rd.,
North Arlington, N.J., is on Wednesday,
April 27,
at 10 a.m. thence to Our Lady Queen of Peace Church,
North
Arlington, for the Funeral Mass at 11 a.m.
Interment will be at Holy
Cross Cemetery, North
Arlington.
The family will
receive friends on
Monday from 7 to
9 p.m. and Tuesday from
2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Born in Nenagh,
County Tipperary, Ireland, Mr.
Clarke lived in Kearny,
N.J., for the past 58 years.
He worked as a supervisor for the Anheuser
Busch
Company in Newark for 25 years before retiring in
1989. Mr.
Clarke served in the United States Army
during the Korean War.
He was
the beloved husband for 58 years of Philomena
( nee O'Grady); the
devoted father of John Clarke,
Joseph Clarke and his wife, Anne,
Brendan Clarke
and his wife, Catherine, and Patrick Clarke and his
wife, Kristen; the cherished grandfather of Joseph,
Timothy, Michael
and David Clarke, and dear brother
of Mary Warren, Anthony Clarke and
the late Vincent
Clarke.
In lieu of flowers, the family would
appreciate
donations made to the Sisters of St. Joseph,
9701 Germantown
Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 19118.
** ST. VALENTINE !!
From my latest
Newslettre, I receive the following
from our
illustrious leader Angela regarding the
history of Saint Valentine :
“Hi Del,
“As always its lovely to read your news letter.
“I suppose you
already know that St. Valentine is
buried in Dublin at
the Carmelite Convent.
“See the link below.”
http://www.carmelites.ie/ireland/Whitefriar%20St/valentine.htm
THANK you SO MUCH Angela !!
** TWO WEEK
COUNTDOWN !!
**
NO TIME LEFT !!
The Windy City
Chapter is very excited
to host the
next convention and is very busy
with the plans !!
Chicago lost
the Olympic bid but we DID
gained the
next BCIS convention! Please join us
for a fun filled
convention where we talk about,
shop for, auction off,
and share information
regarding our favorite obsession,
BELLEEK !!
SO, SAVE THE
DATE FOR BCIS
2011 CONVENTION-
CHICAGO, 15th thru 18th SEPTEMBER, 2011 !!
For COMPLETE information, please Click the following
Link to obtain Printable Forms for your Registration !!
Complete
2011 Chicago Convention Information and Forms !!
Remember, transportation and lodging is in the
current headset of
INCREASING rates as space
becomes a premium !! So, book AS EARLY as you
can to keep your rates reasonable !!
Remember, most
honest carriers
will offer you a
matching rate, if your reservation drops in price !!
Discuss this event with them !!
BE SURE TO
FORWARD THESE DATES AND
ASSOCIATED CONVENTION INFORMATION TO
ALL YOUR
BELLEEKER
FRIENDS !!
**
EVERYONE KEEPS ASKING ??
O.K., O.K. I’m
falling apart !!
I’ve had a pair
of shoulder replacements and a
cancerous cyst removed
from my forehead in the
last twelve months, among other gross medical
necessities !!
In reverse
order (??) :
As to my
Carcinoma surgery, I had requested the
Frankenstein operation
to include insertion of neck
electrodes, but my doctor was out of the
implants so
I was forced to elect the simple yet impressive
Mariska
Hargitay forehead scar !! The lab biopsy,
just today, confirmed
EVERYTHING, i.e., ALL the
cancer was removed successfully !!
I’m back for my
12 week Left Shoulder Replacement
inspection next week
and everything is looking good,
but I (personally) don’t feel that it’s
healing up as
‘fast’ as my Right Shoulder !!
Upon return
from our Convention, YES, I’ll be there,
probably in a
sling partially (??), but there, I’ll be
going in for my ONE YEAR check
on my Right Shoulder
Replacement !! I’ve recuperated to a fine Cricket
Wicket Pitch, but lacking speed our local league wants
nothing of me ??
NOW, the
Shoulder Replacement Cups are (Cobalt)
CHROME, so don’t bother
to pack along your magnets
JUST to see if they’ll stick as I DON’T
think they
will ??!! THANKS !!
**
SCHLECTOPHOBIA !!
While sports
fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist
capsized his
boat. He could swim, but his fear of
alligators kept him clinging to
the overturned craft.
Spotting and
old beachcomber standing on the
shore,
the tourist shouted, "Are there any gators around
here?!"
"Naw,"
the man hollered back, "they ain't been
around for years!"
"Feeling
safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely
toward the shore.
About
halfway there he asked the guy,
"How'd you get
rid of the gators?"
"We
didn't do nothin'," the beachcomber said.
"The sharks got 'em."
**
THUNDER & LIGHTING !!
One summer
evening, during a violent thunderstorm,
a mother was tucking
her small boy into bed. She
was about to turn off the light when he
asked with
a tremor in his voice, "Mommy, will you sleep with
me
tonight?"
The mother
smiled and gave him a reassuring hug.
"I can't
dear," she said, "I have to sleep with Daddy."
A long silence
was
broken at last by a shaken little
voice saying, "The big sissy."
**
UPDATED POSTCARD !!
From some very
good friends down under in New
Zealand and wonderful
Belleekers, I have received
the following updated interpretation of the
verbiage
I presented from a postcard I have in my collection :
“Hi Del, “My
interpretation, is as follows:
Sir/ please add
to order
the following
6 only (1doz crossed out) tall shamrock
tdn (tumblers) w (with) saucers at 8/
1 doz creams
1 doz sugars
oblique
G. Watson
Top left hand
corner of post card stamped with :
On the way to
the Cathedral
Ellie Walsh's
Irish Hobelth House
King St
Queenstown
“I looked up
the address on googlemaps.uk and found
that
Queenstown has changed its name to Cobh and
is part of the harbour of
Cork. West Beach Street
is still there and if you look through the
images I
found the same houses as on the post card. The what
looks like
a tall clock tower up the hill on the post
card is part of the
Cathedral.
“So it appears
Ellie ran a hotel/boarding house on
then
called King Street now called King Terrace.
“The post mark
will be
Queenstown 1906. You can
only make out the top of the S all of TO and
what
looks like part of a N too much space to be TON so
must be TOWN.
“All my
detective work for now.
Margaret”
And THANKS to
our Margaret for her painstaking
research of another
fascinating Belleek topic !!
For
your edification, your editor has re-inserted both of
my postcard images for your viewing !!
Here's a BEAUTIFULLY hand decorated
pastel coloured photograph of
West Beach Queenstown Co. Cork,
c1906 (from reminants of postmark) !!
