Friday, April 09, 2010
Due to circumstances beyond my control I will be away from My Hometown on April's third Saturday and so I will miss Wellborn School Reunion. I'm an adopted Wildcat. Wilsons transplanted ourselves here in 1980. The hometown school closed in the 60's. I covered the wonderful nostalgia of the annual school reunion for the Wellborn News column. It was a soft news weekly in the Suwannee Democrat for a dozen years or more.
I feel especially sorry to miss this year's reunion because it will be a tender time for my dear friend Helen McMullen Cribbs. Wilmer Cribbs departed this life on March 29st. By God's grace I spoke with both Helen and Wilmer March 27. There is no one in Wellborn who is kinder, more generous, more beloved than Helen Cribbs. God gave her and Wilmer 63 years of marriage and the gifts they gave us all are many; three daughters and two sons twelve grandchildren and eleven great grands. Their home place was honored with a plaque and proper recognition as a family farm with the lucky ones of their children in homes of their own on the acreage today. Wilmer's October birthday was the occasion for a Cribbs family gospel sing to which everyone was invited and everyone came. Wilmer was the down deep in the cellar bass voice. Thanksgiving weekend Cribbs invited the whole town again to come to their home. Page 69 in WELLBORN MY HOMETWON paperback book describes the warmth of their host and hostessing. Their nearby family helped and the specialty was pancakes, sausage and cane syrup made from their own cane the old fashioned boiling down way.
The old order changeth and yieldeth place to the new but we do treasure our rememberings of Wilmer Cribbs. A "Well done, thou good and faithful servant", man, indeed.
I feel especially sorry to miss this year's reunion because it will be a tender time for my dear friend Helen McMullen Cribbs. Wilmer Cribbs departed this life on March 29st. By God's grace I spoke with both Helen and Wilmer March 27. There is no one in Wellborn who is kinder, more generous, more beloved than Helen Cribbs. God gave her and Wilmer 63 years of marriage and the gifts they gave us all are many; three daughters and two sons twelve grandchildren and eleven great grands. Their home place was honored with a plaque and proper recognition as a family farm with the lucky ones of their children in homes of their own on the acreage today. Wilmer's October birthday was the occasion for a Cribbs family gospel sing to which everyone was invited and everyone came. Wilmer was the down deep in the cellar bass voice. Thanksgiving weekend Cribbs invited the whole town again to come to their home. Page 69 in WELLBORN MY HOMETWON paperback book describes the warmth of their host and hostessing. Their nearby family helped and the specialty was pancakes, sausage and cane syrup made from their own cane the old fashioned boiling down way.
The old order changeth and yieldeth place to the new but we do treasure our rememberings of Wilmer Cribbs. A "Well done, thou good and faithful servant", man, indeed.
# posted by Jinny Wilson @ 4:42 PM 
