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Just thought I would add to this post.

After speaking with Glynda, I wrote a song based on her story and thought that others may like to hear it



Lyrics below

God Bless Roy and Helen

'The Only Love We'd Known'

My kids think I'm the best
For them I know it's true,
If you could hear my words mum
I would say the best was you.
I've stood by your grave
Many times this 40 years
Going over memories
As I wipe away my tears.

Mother you took your own life
Leaving us five girls alone
We lost our greatest joy that day
The only love we'd known

What was on your mind mum
What hell were you going through
I wished you had talked to me
Was there nothing I could do
Don't know why you did it mum
What drove you to despair?
When I came home from school
I found the sheriff waiting there.

Mother you took your own life
Leaving us five girls alone
We lost out greatest joy that day
The only love we'd known

I remember how you taught me mum
To do the high school cheer
I was rushing home to tell you
I was picked from my jun'yer year
But I never got to do that cheer,
Cause I took your place alone
Pickin' cotton in the fields,
So as to keep the girls at home

I brought my sisters up
As if I was their mum
I tried to teach them Gods way
In everything I done
You called me your sweet Glendale,
I'd sit upon your knee
You loved to hear me singing
Please sing again you'd plea

Mother you took your own life
Leaving us five girls alone
We lost out greatest joy that day
The only love we'd known

Now I have grownup kids
And some grand-children too
We play 'round and make mud-pies
just like we used to do
I wish that you was here now,
You would have been so proud
Maybe you're looking down mum,
From one of heavens clouds

I wish that you was here now,
You would have been so proud
Maybe you're looking down mum,
From one of heavens clouds