In a message dated 4/6/2004 8:14:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, chilipepper5454@aol.com writes: > Wilma, it's funny you should mention that. I have a cute story about > when my grandmother Marie Daniels Castle passed away. There was > an elderly man who came for visitation, on the 1st day he came up to the > casket shook hands with each of us and introduced him self as Martin. > Then he went over took a seat and stayed until the showing was over. > The 2nd day he showed up again and did the same thing. We started asking > family members who this Martin was, none knew him, but we had thought > nothing of it at first since we are related to the Martin's in Floyd Co. > We thought him to be an unknown family member. That evening another > family had a showing, and the Martin man went over to the room where > this person was being shown, walked up to the casket and again introduced > him self then took a seat. He went from room to room paying his respects > to family members, it was then we realized that he must be a poor old > lonely man had nothing better to do with his time then to visit funeral > homes. > > He certainly gave us a chuckle at a sad time. > Jean > Jean, That is really a cute story. He must not have had anything else to do. Love, Charlotte http://www.geocities.com/charlotte7274/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FamilyandMore