We will soon be celebrating one of our best holidays, Thanksgiving.
We need to go back to the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims had been so blessed with a great harvest of food, good health and a new land where they found religious freedom. So they prepared a big feast and set aside this day for thanking God for their many blessings.
This was the first Thanksgiving.
They didn’t eat alone, because they invited their neighbors, the Indians, who taught them so much about a new life, planting and harvesting, etc. The Pilgrims were thankful. So should we be.
We can’t invite all our friends for a feast because the Frazier family is so large, love each other and enjoy good food.
Today, we want to thank everyone who has been an avid reader of this column in our weekly Review for over a long period of time, over 60 years. You have been wonderful. “Thank You.”
There are some readers who call or tell me when they see me how much they enjoy the column. That means so much to a lady of my age.
God has truly blessed this column.
To these people who are so special to our family we send our love and a special “Happy Thanksgiving” Carolyn Reynolds, Edward and Frances Frazier, Jerry and Susan Hinton, Jerry and Brenda Parker, Mary Snow, Loyce Holcomb, Royce Odom, Marlene Prichard, Wayne and Deborah Fuson, Danny and Deborah Agee, Bobby and Paulette Robinson, Jerry Robinson, Bro. Donald Owens, Robert and Roberta Robinson, Jimmy and Becky Womack, Jeff and Peggy Pearson, Mac and Jean Harney, Bobby and Mary Joines, Bob Earl and Linda Fuston and Inez Farler.
Roscoe and Pauline Frazier and Matilda Reed were in Lebanon to visit Roscoe’s sister, Virginia Hendrixson, who is receiving treatment at McFarland Rehabilitation Center after suffering a stroke.
Virginia is on our prayer list. Please remember her in your prayers. We send a special get well wish to her.
Prayer list: Anthony Wright, Jimmy Midgett, Vena Fuston, Bob and Linda Fuston, Frances Frazier, Amy Miller family, Claudette Lasser family, Charlie Agee, Amanda Wilkerson, Kenny Rhody, June Rhody, Ruth White, Debbie O’Conner, Helen Burt, Carroll and Peggy Thomas, James W. Keyt, Louise Frazier, Delores Jones, Inez Farler, Edsel Frazier, Harold and Faye Elrod, Elaine Garrison, Joe and Carol Dickey, Glenda Robinson, Brigham Ayers, Joe Ayers, Jim Cripps, Audrey Owens, Georgia Hawker, Sarah Walker, Don and Peggy Beasley and Tanner Malone.
These people need our prayers. Remember them in some kind of way during this Thanksgiving holiday.
You might need help one day.
Bro. Donald Owens visited Mrs. Vena Fuston, who is in NHC  for some needed therapy.
Hello to Vena, and our love and best wishes go to her.
The weather looks rainy. We can use some rain, but we do not like extreme cold weather. We tend to want bad weather to stay away as long as possible.
Dry Creek Baptist Church had its Thanksgiving dinner on Nov.20. A bountiful and delicious meal was served in the fellowship hall.
A native son of the Dry Creek Valley, Bro. Kenneth Tramel of Lebanon was the guest speaker at the prayer service at 7 p.m.
Bro. Tramel talked about his humble parents, the late Roscoe and Elsie Tramel, rearing him in the church and Dry Creek Elementary School and that he was so thankful for his parents and teachers. Possum Holler, which branches off the main Dry Creek valley, was home of Kenneth, whose playmate, Bob Earl Fuston, lived on the hill across from the Tramel’s.
Bro. Kenneth is well educated, but he didn’t talk about that. He was so thankful for a Christian home and people in the church and school who had a major influence on his life, and have been there when he needed them.
His faithful wife, Peggy, was with him, and has always supported him. He served as pastor at Shop Springs for many years.
He has been a supporter and helpmate of Cumberland University for many years. This was a great opportunity that was a blessing for him.
“O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good.” (Psalms. 107:1).