Although Faith Belobsky Eddingston graduated with the Class of 1963, she was a friend to many in our class. I was greatly saddened when I received this notice from Sonny. Our hearts and prayers go out to Faith’s family and friends.

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Bobby Faith Belovsky Eddingston

Born on September 15, 1944 in Valley Mills, TX

Departed on February 23, 2007 and resided in Bandera, TX

Bobby Faith Eddingston, 62, of Bandera passed away Friday, February 23, 2007, at her residence. In Valley Mills, TX on September 15, 1944, she was born to Robert Belovsky and Hazel Geraldine Lindberg Belovsky, who preceded her in death.

Memorial services to be held at 2:00 pm, March 3, 2007 at Grimes Funeral Chapel, Bandera, TX

Faith was educated at North Texas University and the University of Texas with a major in Scandinavian languages and Linguistics, enabling her to fluently speak four languages. On June 25, 1982, in Austin, TX, she married John Keith Eddingston, who survives her.

She had 28 years of experience in the travel industry when she joined Corporate Travel Planners, Inc. as the director of International, negotiating hotel, car and corporate international airline contracts, recruited new corporate accounts, and acted as both a vendor liaison and corporate client relations contact. Faith’s involvement within her community and the travel industry was deep. She was a member of the Kiwi Club, the Texas Business Travel Assn., U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce, Meeting Professionals International, the North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and the Alamo Area Hospitality Assn. She was also the Volunteer Chairman for Christy’s Hope Annual Charity Golf Tournament benefiting the Battered Women’s Shelter of Bexar County. The success of the “Keep the Faith” Golf Tournament was a wonderful tribute to this much loved AAHA member.

Faith was admired for her positive attitude and cheerful disposition which prevailed throughout her illness while she fought a brief, but courageous battle with cancer. The family would like to thank all of her friends for their outpouring of love and support for Faith throughout her final months. May God bless you all.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by 2 nieces: Elizabeth and Sydney Eddingston; 2 nephews: Ty Eddingston and Matthew Okworo, and a host of friends.

A memorial service will be held at Grimes Funeral Chapel in Bandera at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, 2007.

You may have seen in news accounts that our company, H E Cannon Floral, had a very destructive fire just prior to valentine’s day. Fortunately, we were able to move our staff and fresh products into our greenhouse and completed the holiday successfully. My husband, Louis, class of ’59, has spent most of his time since trying to get our computers back online. We plan to be in a temporary building there on our property at 512 W Division within a week where we will continue the business until our building is renovated. We had such an outpouring of kindness and caring from our colleagues and clients it truly warmed our hearts.

we are finding it true that good can come from bad situations. Just wanted everyone to know we have continued to be up and running and look forward to continuing to serve arlington’s floral needs.

Pat Jackson Flynt

I can’t believe I forgot to tell “everyone” I know. The show first aired a couple of Sundays ago.

Pat Pierce Nevils

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The National Invitational AKC Agility Show is finally on TV. Pat Pierce Nevil’s daughter, Anna Lewandowski and her Newfoundland dog Rory competed at the beginning of December in Long Beach, CA. The show aired 3 more times Animal Planet - Thursday, 7:00 pm; Thursday, 10:00 pm and Sunday, 2:00 pm (all central time zone).

Pat’s daughter is on early where the hosts asked what it took to compete at that level - she’s about the 4th person up and her one word is “heart.” The show then proceeds to show the competition from the 20” dogs down to the 8” dogs. Before each height, they show some of the dogs that did not make the 8 dogs that compete in the finals of each height. They finally come to the 24” height. Anna and Rory are in the part of the 24” dogs that did not make the finals. They come right after a St. Bernard. Rory, the black Newfoundland, comes into the picture and spins in front of a jump. Then you see Pat’s daughter Anna with her Texas flag shirt instructing Rory to jump. The spin is a disqualification at that level but there was their 15 seconds of fame.

Also of interest is the first dog up named Susie, the golden retriever. They are from Houston and Anna teaches agility for Jane Simmons-Moake. Susie and Jane had the best time of any of the dogs the whole weekend.

Alice and Larry’s Summer Vacation

There is a beautiful bridge from San Diego to Coronado. It is pictured here behind us when we were on the USS Midway, which is now a museum in San Diego Bay.

While we were on their tour, I took this picture of Larry in front of an A4 that they had on display in their hanger. That’s the kind of jet he flew in the Navy.

Coronado is a small patriotic town and they have a wonderful 4th of July parade every year. We tried to dress for the occasion this year.

Every Sunday night they had a free concert in the city park which is in the center of town. Families would bring covered dishes and lawn chairs and group together with friends and neighbors and enjoy the evening visiting, having dinner and listening to music. One night the Ink Spots were playing. A couple of them are not original but 2 of them were and the base player is 94 years old! He had an amazing base voice!

I rode my bike all over the island all summer. I hadn’t been on a bike in years. I wondered if I even remembered how. But, like they say, it always comes back to you. There were beautiful tropical plants and flowers everywhere, so I would forget I was actually getting exercise. We did a lot of walking, also.

We rented a wonderful 1940’s cottage with a courtyard, which was like our most used “room” in the house. The weather is so nice there that we used the courtyard like a dinning room.

It was great to be outdoors in pleasant weather so much of the time. Foozie really enjoyed the courtyard, also.

My mother came to visit me. We had a good time shopping, lunching and sightseeing together. Some of you knew her, so I thought I would include this photo of us.

Skipping directly from summer to winter now, I hope you all enjoy the holidays and don’t get stressed trying to do too much!

Take care,

Alice Venum Schear