In Loving Memory of Carol Elizabeth Gentry (Drake)

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Carol Elizabeth Gentry (Drake) 

February 9, 1943- November 1, 2006

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She has always been so full of life.
 
She has always been able to look at the bright side of things, even when things were rough she never let life get her down.  She always forgave and never held a grudge.  She was full of Love.

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(below) I believe this picture is taken outside her home in Illinois, March of '63, making Mom 20 years old.  She has such a pretty smile.

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If I could tell my mother anything, it would be that I love her  whole heartedly and that I miss her very much; today, and always. 
 
I would tell her that I was sorry if I ever made her life harder than it already was; and that I thought she did the very best she could for all of us kids.  I can only hope to be half as generous and as kind as she.  There is not another mother in the world that I would have rather had.  Finally I would say,
 
Thank You. 

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Mother Always a part of me

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Little qwirks

These qwirks are what made my mother, her... I find them very special. 

She loved red.  LOVED it!!                                                        She always would wear her bright fire engine red lip stick, but sometimes her long nails would be painted a deep orangish/red clashing with her lip stick :) and then her open toed shoes would reveal yet another version of red; a  bright pink fuchsia colored polish.               

I miss my mother and her unique style very much!    

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Mom and Dick first married on Maui

Dick made my mother very happy.  She would express how lucky she was to have found someone as nice and caring as he.  She said he treated her like a princess and always wanted to buy her jewlery.  She would often say how happy she was with him.  She said she couldn't have found a nicer man.  I am thankful she was finally genuinely happy!

I only wish it could have been sooner, and longer.

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Carol Elizabeth Gentry  ~  February 9, 1943- November 1, 2006