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Show Vt v. WT... 'H' 7 Thursday. Nov. 7i. THE GREEN SHEET 1MI HOLIDAY MEMORIES Death Came Close One Thanksgiving To Brent Ursenbach "Can you leave the kitchen for an hour or so?" Wayne called from "As we all gathered around the table that late Thanksgiving Day and bowed our heads to give thanks, our thoughts and prayers were so different from what they would have been a few hours earlier - grateful that the blow to the back door. His wife, Bernice quickly looked around. She saw the pies, salads, cranberry sauce and rolls which had all been prepared the day before. The turkey was in the oven; the vegetables were ready for cooking and even the table was ready for the guests. "Yes," she answered, "I can leave but where are we going?" Wayne explained that their neighbor, Ray Free and daughter, Madeline, had invited them to bring the family to their pasture where the children could all go for -- Call an ambulance. "I ran to the house, told Ray and his wife, Louise, what had happened and asked for the the phone book. I called ambulance and then our family doctor, George Miller, at home and asked him to please meet us at Cottonwood Hospital. "An exam showed that a tree limb had hit the top of his head and literally scalped him. The top of his head was laid open with a horseshoe shaped wound and the Everyone screamed, hang on, sharp thorns of the olive tree had stop him, hold tight, but none of made innumerable shallow cuts it did any good. down his back from his shoulders "The horse knew what to do. He to his waist. headed straight for a heavy stand "The next few hours were spent of Russian olive trees, ran under in the emergency room where them and the next thing we saw wounds were cleaned of dirt, was Brent crumpled in a heap on straw, hay and manure before the the round. painstaking work of repairing the "The entire group stood in shock head wound could take place. for a couple of seconds. Get up, "Later, after Brent was moved get up, I heard myself crying, but to ICU, we visited him and were he didnt move. By this time told that we could only spend five Wayne, Sylvia and Madeline were minutes each hour with him, so racing across the field, and as we returned home and had our they reached him, Wayne shouted dinner. Grandmother's House We Went" Tells Murray Mayor LaVar McMillan All of my early lifes winter holidays were very enjoyable. We would meet at Grandfather and house on the Grandmothers northeast corner of 5900 South and State Street. The dining room table was extended the full width of the room and about twenty-fiv- e (25) descendants of Michael and Rosella McMillan would gather for a tremendous dinner, including pumpkin pie and plum ItF"" I blessing, grateful for family and friends and most of all grateful for the life of our son. life was in "Suddenly, perspective; we were very aware of the really important things in life. "This happened twenty-twyears ago but each year, on Thanksgiving, we recall that day and our hearts once more reflect on the blessings of the past year, and put cur lives in the right perspective, once again. o I6SMEHSP0RY.. a horseback ride. "We enjoyed the short walk to Frees pasture where Madeline was saddling up a couple of horses and asked who wanted to be first. Brent, our fourteen year old, was eager and so he was quickly on the horse. "Before he was able to adjust himself in the saddle, however, the horse bolted and was off at a dead run. He obviously didnt like the strange rider and was determined 'to get rid of him. "To the head was not an inch lower which likely would have been fatal, grateful that our doctor and friend was still at home when I called and was able to give the skilled treatment that was needed, grateful for prayers and WJC " pudding. 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