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DISCLAIMER- VIRG EXPRESSES NO OPINION ABOUT THE MOTIVES ANYONE SELLING CHICKEN OR ANY HOBBY LOBBYISTS. 

A Man Will Hear What He Wants To Hear And Disregard The Rest.

I've seen it, and the First Amendment just does not read like this.

It's ok to believe in the Baby Jesus though and to think everyone else is wrong if they don't.  See, Bobby Family Values.   It's just that the goverment can't make us believe or disbelieve anything.  That's a wonderful thing that makes this the land of the free. Do I hear an amen Elder Leland?
Thanks to Dr. Steve.

“IT'S A WONDERFUL TIME TO BE ALIVE. AS LONG AS ONE HAS ENOUGH DYNAMITE.” Bernard Mickey Wrangle

Thanks to Ken

Dying Like Doctors.

“'Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me' . . .Some medical personnel wear medallions stamped “NO CODE” to tell physicians not to perform CPR on them. I have even seen it as a tattoo. . . . How has it come to this–that doctors administer so much care that they wouldn’t want for themselves? The simple, or not-so-simple, answer is this: patients, doctors, and the system.. . . .Hospice care, which focuses on providing terminally ill patients with comfort and dignity rather than on futile cures, provides most people with much better final days. Amazingly, studies have found that people placed in hospice care often live longer than people with the same disease who are seeking active cures." How Doctors Die- It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be.  Ken Murray, MD
Thanks to Judge C.

Mothers of My Mother

Though “Sassenaugh” was an insult to some of my ancestors, we speak the name of Æthelflæd with the same reverence as we do the names of Alaisiagae, Aoife, and Boadicea. We are of one blood. Thank you for life my mothers.

THE WHITE ESTABLISHMENT - It is a cultural reality. The Southern colonies were initially established by the third sons of english aristocracy, driven by inheritance law, and the indentured servants, prisoners and slaves they brought over. Hence a class society in which you are suppose to know and respect your betters. With this comes a primitive view of religion that holds everything as ordained on high. Indeed a central function of a church in such a society is to justify the social order. It is god's will that the big man lives in the big house (they are the job creators you see) and god's will that blacks should be slaves. 

The South was/is a culture dominated by belief values that never fully accepted the liberal democratic ideals that sprang from reason and inquiry, so well absorbed in the northern states, populated as they were by a single class of emigrants, most fleeing the rule of the big man.


The northern states evolved a middle class and professional society that emphasized education, free thought, equality and pursuit of science. The tea party was in Boston remember, the South came slowly and reluctantly to the revolution.
Because agricultural practices were so harsh on the land, the inland southern states were progressively populated from this same cultural pool, moving ever westward for fresh land. Being southern born I have to say the south has its virtues or rather there are virtuous sides to its flaws, blind loyalty being one of them; they know how to wave a flag and die for it.


The irony is that the red states peoples believe themselves to be the true Americans largely on the basis of this type of unquestioning loyalty but in reality America's founding political ideals are best expressed in the progressive blue states that drove the original revolution and that have driven the nation's progress and subsidized the South even today as it is still scared by it perverse refusal to educate and empower its people; this to in the interest of keeping wages low for the big man.


An even larger irony is that the Republican party now owns the Southern side of the ongoing civil war (it has never really ended) and the Democrats have adopted the yankees. That itself is an interesting story, born in the civil rights movement where the Democratic party had to choose between it intellectual labor driven values it had picked up over time and the inherited racism of it geographic roots. The Republican party, for two generations in the wilderness as an opposition minority party, could not resist the temptation to broaden its base at the expense of its own traditional values and here we are and here it is, locked into catering and empowering the racist religious ignorance demographic of America.  What a tragedy but Bill does not see it.  No, his stress is that the South is losing again. 

An Email Exchange Accross the Fence.

Damn. You still don't get it, do you!?!  

 

OK I'll try me more time...

 

It's not that the Demos have a "better get out the vote machine", it's that their message is one of Love, Peace, Caring, Respect and Helping their fellow human being. Sometimes they can go overboard, such as LBJs "Great Society" welfare program. But they genuinely show love and compassion for their fellow citizens. 

 

Whereas the Republicans have a dog-eat-dog, devil-take-the-hindmost, shoot first ask questions later, torture is great, the one with the most toys wins (and gets to make all the rules), government is bad bad bad, the person with the bigger bank account is a better person than any of them horrible ugly poooor people, worship of the giant Golden $ (see the ending of Atlas Shrugged) philosophy. 

 

From the day Obama was first elected the Republican Party stated that they were going to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING in their power to sabotage his Presidency. And they have. But when they did this they were sabotaging MY COUNTRY! DAMMIT! They fought tooth and nail everything Obama tried to do, even when it was something that they would be all for had someone with an (R) after their name proposed it! The Republican Party crawled into the bed of furthest right wing religious racist fanatics and stroked their cocks hoping it would "excite their base"... They have driven from their party the bespectacled, intelligent, moderate by championing the rebel flag waving, rotten tooth, low IQ, the earth is only 6000 yrs old, jock-strap chewing troglodyte. Their champions are the Sarah Palins, the Ann Coulters, the Rush Limbaaaaaaahhhhhhhgghgs... Why the fuck can't you see this shit? The Barry that live on the 3rd floor of that old house next to Audubon Park with Larry and listened to Firesign Theater records would have...

What you saw yesterday is the result... And unless the Republicans learn that respect for intelligence and compromise are qualities that they should embrace then it will only get worse for them. 

 

P.S. I did not write this but it sums things up pretty well in a spontanious way.

Sometimes I Want to Cry Too Abigael.

Thanks to Carol

Alastor Moody.

RIP my friend.  I admire few more than you.

Bobby Family Values

Likeness Is uncanny

This is taken from the letters to the editor of the Arkansas Democrat- Gazette, October 14th,2012. I have had the same feelings but Al beat me to the punch and how he did it so short and sweet.

"Likeness is uncanny"
       
      " The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's editorial page is just like Fox News in print."

                                                     Al Janssen
                                                           Little Rock

Mitt Will, Sooner or Later, Claim to Have a Vagina, but He'll Still Be the Same Ole Lame Ole . . . .

Comparative Intelligence of Selected Mammalian Species.

The food bin was recommended and installed by an engineer, a lawyer, a teacher, and a professional carpenter. The first night, the coons got the lid off. After the lid was secured, the coons started using the lever. They left the great mound of food, pictured here, on the porch. The cats apparently couldn't figure out what the mound was and appeared to be starving until the food was scooped from the mound and placed in their bowls.

Cuz Has Trouble Taking Pictures With The Kodak On His Newfangled Phone.

He did make it work on the one below, which is amazing since he was so startled.  He knew that bears did this, but never considered that deer might. .

I'm Cocksure That This is True.

Thanks to R.G.

rnc-attendees-throw-nuts-at-black-cnn-camerawoman-this-is-how-we-feed-animals

Should it surprise us that it happened or that they threw her out? Shouldn't the candidates whose campaigns depend upon the sentiment go with them? It is confusing to me.  In either event, it seems unfair that Issac interfered with the GOP (Good Old Party) convention. I wonder if they would agree to extend it if kind hearted democrats would agree to pay for it.

http://www.examiner.com/article/rnc-attendees-throw-nuts-at-black-cnn-camerawoman-this-is-how-we-feed-animals

MITT ROMNEY WAS BORN IN PARAGUAY?

"A MUST READ FOR ALL PATRIOTS:

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!  UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE ROMNEY BORN IN PARAGUAY!  DID ROMNEY COMMIT FELONY VOTER FRAUD? "

I just got this in an email from JT, a bi-partisan birther.  I checked with a couple of sources I trust who didn't buy this theory.  One believed that Romney’s ancestors were born in Mexico, where they had fled to avoid picky U.S. laws that marriage was only between one man and one woman.”  

The other said that Romney was born in Mexico where many of his relatives still live and are part of the governing class there.  He has also heard “that he and his family there are in a conspiracy with the NRA to arm what are alleged to be drug cartel criminals but are actually a mix of Mexican and American revolutionaries feed up with pinko-liberalism in this country.  They intend to infiltrate the government, particularly the National Guard.  Then, and this is the critical part, they intend to force through the UN a treaty that will join Mexico to the United States using China's leverage as our largest creditor to make us accept it.  Mexico will become the fifty first state.  Once that is done they will have the votes in congress to enact Akins forced pregnancy laws, decriminalize legitimate rape, move the capital to Salt Lake City and make Catholic-Mormonism the official Religion.  Forced prayer returned to the schools and silly stuff like evolution and biology removed, God will once again smile upon America.  With this done all that will need to be done is to get the job creators on an earned income tax credit, so they can just tap the treasury directly, toss the welfare moms onto the street and prosperity will abound.  This is what I hear anyway. Might not all be true but pretty sure some of it is.”  JT is "pretty sure that Mexico stuff is just a distraction from the true Paraguay story, though unfounded rumors do abound about the untimely, suspect death of the obstetrician."  He claims to have actually known a boy who was born on the Paraguay Plantation.  "He used to bring big round straw hats and real colorful clothes to grade school for show and tell day and talk about snakes there and that his dad had some other wives and some other kids he hadn't met."   

In any event here's the Paraguay version for what it's worth:  

This is a must email for you to send to ALL PATRIOTIC CITIZENS!  The strange and bizarre unfolding story of Romney’s foreign birth is now nearly beyond despute!

HERE ARE THE FACTS:

*Most Americans by now know of the Mexican Mormon Colony where Romney’s grandfather went in protest to the US Supreme Court’s outlawing of polygamy.  But few remember a second colony, farther away, in the mountains 50 miles north of Ascension, Paraguay, dubbed informally “the Paraguay Plantation”.   

*Records recovered from the FAA show a flight plan filed from Park City, Utah, to Ascension, Paraguay, on March 7, 1947.  The plane returned March 16, 1947, 2357 hrs.

*A flight plan was filed from Battle Creek, Michigan, to Park City, Utah,  for a private plane, for March 6, 1947.  The pilot:  the Romney family obstetrician.  No record exists of the plane’s return—Freedom  of Information request returned as unavailable.

*Doctors, as we all know, sign many, many things daily, from prescriptions to patient charts and other medical forms and records.  Regular visits are made in particular to the newborn by delivering physicians in the period immediately after birth.  Harper’s  Hospital, Detroit, where Romney shows to have been born on his birth certificate can produce no signed documents for his obstetrician between March 7 and March 17, though many exist for days just before and just after that time.

*It is customary in Michigan for birth certificates to be submitted the day after birth.  Romney’s was not submitted until March 18, 1947.  Michigan law requires submission to the state within 7 days.  Romney has so far refused to release his birth certificate, but a copy obtained by reliable sources show it to have been signed by his obstetrician on March 9, 2012.

*Willard Mitt Romney was born MARCH 9, 1947!

*Why, one would wonder, would it be so important for a children of members of the CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS  to be born in Paraguay?  Why all the secrecy?  Here’s why:  Polygamy was the norm for many of Paraguay’s indigenous tribes, was still legal there until the late ‘70s, and, unlike Mexico, it offered citizenship to anyone born there, even if they were children of foreign nationals.  This is true of no other western hemisphere country!  Given the history of persecution of Mormons—first in New York State, then on to Missouri and Illinois, and elsewhere, and most recently by the US Supreme Court in criminalizing polygamy,--Church elders reasoned that if Mormon children were born in Paraguay under cover of secrecy, those children would have citizenship in a homeland in the event persecution in the United States persisted or increased.  A safety valve, if you will, a safe haven.  If things got bad enough in the US, the fraud could be admitted and the children repatriated to Paraguay, a country rich in natural resources and ripe for colonization by industrious folk like the LDSers.  No crime would have been committed by the children, only by the well-meaning adults who arranged the fraud.   Leaked documents from the Tabernacle contain ample references to the plan, and, in some cases, partial lists of the names of kids so born—mostly from prominent families who could stand the expense of the journey—still exist.  None, apparently, survive for the year 1947.  Or so sources in the inner LDS sanctum suggest.

*There is no proof that Romney knew the secret of his birth, at least until his stint at the Salt Lake City Olympics, about which more below.

*While much of the “Paraguay Plantation Project” is still shrouded in secrecy, absolute proof of its existence and practices surfaced in a most surprising way around the time of the Salt Lake City Olympics.  LDS Leaders, conducting a review of the Church’s postmortem baptism practices, unearthed a scandal, mostly hushed up at the time, in which some LDS renegades were selling SSNs of deceased persons to parties mixed up in identity fraud.  As is well known, LDSers had been using the Social Security Archive since the early 40’s,--public record, and free—and the best source for a wealth of names of dead persons, with deaths updated in those days yearly, and identified by Social Security Number.  The Mormon connection came to light in the investigation of some of the early Nigerian Scams.  The LDS leaders did the right thing and ended the practice, and disciplined the wrongdoers.  But in the course of the investigation they also discovered that many of the babies born in Paraguay between 1944 and 1961, when the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) effectively was put to rest, had been issued social security numbers of the dead retrieved from the Mormon files, RATHER IN THE FASHION THAT OBAMA’S GRANDMOTHER IS SAID TO HAVE OBTAINED HIS SSN.  Romney is not, repeat NOT, implicated in this fraud—the wealthier families could afford the elaborate arrangements to obviate the need for more fabrication of records. 

*  Interestingly enough, the Plantation was closed in 1969, when, as happens with faraway colonial projects, the colony members got Mormon theology mixed up with “The Summer of Love” and hippy counterculture --One of the Grateful Dead members had been brought up a Mormon, and his visit to his sister in Paraguay prompted the apostacy.

*Flash forward to the Salt Lake City Olympics.  Romney’s prominence in the LDS Community had to mean that he knew of the SSN scandals detailed above, and, if so, he may have learned that his own birth was subject to question.  If so, and he learned of it at the time, he had, at that point committed no crimes.  BUT IF HE VOTED IN ANY ELECTION AFTER THAT, A FELONY HAS BEEN COMMITTED, as he was not a US Citizen and knew his vote to be make in the commission of voter fraud.

COINCIDENCE?   ENOUGH CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TO PROVE THE CASE IN AN AMERICAN COURT OF LAW!  THE ONLY POSSIBLE LEGAL CONCLUSION:  

MITT ROMNEY WAS BORN IN PARAGUAY!

A Rainy Day’s Reflection.

 Among the 3,400 human dead at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern was the uncle of my grandfather, A.H. Snoddy, and Cuz's grandmother, Dial Pearl Estelle Snoddy Prim.  I can't remember his first name.  They drove a wagon from Johnson County to Pea Ridge to pick up the body.  That's about 110 miles each way.  

Cuz walked it yesterday in honor of our fallen Snoddy ancestor and of Col. Hezekiah Vibram and his valiant Five Fingers Brigade.  (No, Nicole, according to all accounts, he didn't.  Apparently women in them days saw things as you do.)

"Be Proud to Be a Decent American Rather than Be Just a Wanker Whipping up Fear."

Thank you President Higgins.

Roadkill

On August 5^th 2012 while reading the Arkansas Democrat Gazette Artbeat section by Ellis Widner I came across an image that was so profound that I had to find out more about it. The image was from a monotype with pastel by Warren Criswell entitled “Roadkill”. These types of images which are dark and mysterious always get my attention for some reason and that is probably some psychological glitch I have been affected by.

My first thoughts occurred when I pondered the artist’s meaning of the subject “Roadkill”. It was disturbing for two reasons, one was that the roadkill described was visually a human figure and two a mythological bird like figure was seemingly eating the corpse on the road.

Over the years I have contemplated the plight of life that I have witnessed being extinguished on highways by manmade vehicles. Quite gory and somewhat disturbing to me was the desire to photograph those mangled bodies known as road kill.

This image by Criswell seemed to be saying that we are witnessing the continuing slaughter of mankind not only here on our highways but also across the globe and even more pathetic in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 Just like the animals scattered on our roads, the human losses in war have mostly been ignored, unless a death victim is a relative or friend. The human mind tries to protect itself from the horrors of everyday life and from going “crazy”.

An excellent commentary in the Democrat Gazette recently by Dave Perozek on how we as humans are ignoring the ongoing slaughter of our young people in the unjust wars they are being asked to fight . The two major political parties have rarely mentioned these conflicts in the campaign rhetoric. I continue to sadly read the obituaries of the fallen daily in the newspaper, maybe the list should be placed on the front page in red letters but then over time we would ignore those. How quickly we turn our attention away from issues when someone says we are getting our troops out of the country in conflict. It’s like it’s over but the bodies keep coming home in coffins.

All of this is best summarized by Waylon Jennings in his 1978 hit “I’ve always been crazy” being crazy has “kept me from going insane”.

 

Congratulations to Claire O'Sullivan Queen Puck 2012.

Congratulations Queen Claire.  Mary and I wish we could be in  Killorglin to celebrate with you.  We encourage all who can to attend the Puck Fair August 10-12.

Nail Biters In the All Ireland Quarter Finals- Offaly 1-13 Dublin 2-09 & Cork 1-10 Clare 0-10

Defending champions Wexford will play Offaly, and Cork will play Galway in the semi-finals at Nowlan Park on Saturday, August 18.  Kilkenny, home of cuz’s kin the Prims, is a great venue, even if the Cats didn’t make it this year.

Another Misunderstanding

Mark 11:12-14, 19-25

Stoning the Cast First

"Conservative Christians' favorite way to ignore Jesus this week? Instead of feed the hungry – feed themselves! Judging is, of course, trending hard for next week. And the week after that. (And the one after that.)" Mrs. Betty Bowers

 

As Earl Long Told the Reporters When Accused of Dating a New Orleans Strip Tease Dancer.

"It's a damned lie!"

 "24-Jul 1956 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Snoddy, speaking at a political rally in Newport, attacked Governor Faubus for not maintaining segregation at the University of Arkansas Medical Center at Little Rock." Smith's Alternative Arkansas History. 

I don't question Dr. Smith. I'm sure that some newspaper reported this, but no Snoddy would do or say anything racist and certainly not the nephew of Dial Pearl Estelle Snoddy Prim and the Grandfather of Marianne Pratt Guhman, both bleeding hearts and champions of the civil rights of all.

Mr McMath has brought up the point again that is best summarized by none other that my hero John Wayne.

Tennessee bring balance to its education system

Well there are nearly seven billion people in the world and growing.  Should be plain to the simplest mind that this is a train wreak going somewhere to happen.  Fortunately the progressive people of Tennesse have a brilliant solution: don't teach sex in school.  If everyone would follow Tennessee's example young people, ignorant of the subject, would not have sex - bingo, problem solved.  Perhaps we should redouble this by making it illegal for parents to teach sex before marriage as well.  This should work Right? 

There is also a hidden beauty in this action as it brings symmetry to the Tennessee education system, as the quality of sex education will now be in line with that of science, history and critical thinking.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-17/tennessee-condom-lesson-spurs-ban-on-promoting-sex-acts.html

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
Samuel Butler

Happy Birthday America

CURED from UM Media Documentary Projects on Vimeo.

"> Please enjoy this video safely and responsibly. And take your Lipitor. God bless the USA.

THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY

"Tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for [God] to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God." - Alice Walker 
Thanks to Rev. Sandi

Jimmie's Meditation

No one does it better than Dolly, Emmy Lou, and Linda, though Merle & Jimmie himself were right up there.

See, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSXSMj587aI
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ_xj3aDjWU

Snake River Rufus Krile's Biggest & Last Mistake

Interview with Ann Romney

Ann Romney: “What mother doesn’t face that all-important choice-Do I take a well paid job from Daddy and have an au pair raise my children or be a stay at home mom? That way, I get to watch her raise them”

Mrs. Betty Bower: “Ann what do you say to those whiney Mother Hubbards out there on welfare?” 

Ann Romney: “These gals on food stamps need to let their housekeepers know that proper nutrition does not mean having a fresh lobster every night. Good golly, try a standing rib roast or a fresh cut rack of lamb. Mix things up.”

Mrs. Betty Bower: “But sadly I’ve heard rumors about families who go without food for their chefs to prepare.”

Ann Romney: “Well, no matter how hungry you get, remember, those thoroughbreds in your stable are for dressage-not sausage.”

Romney's Character Continues to Dog Him.

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." Abraham Lincoln

"Abide With Me" Transcends.

This powerful Christian hymn was a favorite of  Mahatma Gandhi's and is still used by the Indian military in "Beating Retreat" ceremonies.

 It's still sung in the USA too, thank God.

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's joys grow dim; its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.

Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word,
But as Thou dwell'st with Thy disciples, Lord,
Familiar, condescending, patient, free.
Come not to sojourn, but abide with me.

Come not in terrors, as the King of kings,
But kind and good, with healing in Thy wings;
Tears for all woes, a heart for every plea.
Come, Friend of sinners, thus abide with me.

Thou on my head in early youth didst smile,
And though rebellious and perverse meanwhile,
Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee.
On to the close, O Lord, abide with me.

I need Thy presence every passing hour.
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's power?
Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.

I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death's sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Abide With Me, words by  Henry Francis Lyte, music by William Henry Monk

Thanks to Kay.

New Way to Discover The Mind of God.

"I saw this while being driven this afternoon. While I'm relieved to see that, after many millennia of drowning pregnant women in Great Floods (Genesis 6-7), slaughtering first-born sons (Exodus:12:29-30) and instructing Israelites to stone kids (Deuteronomy 21:18), hack open pregnant women and smash youngsters to pieces (Hosea 13:16), the Lord has decided to do such a 180-degree turn by suddenly becoming 'pro-life.' My only surprise is that He decided to announce such a radical departure from everything He's ever said and done on a bumper sticker! But who says you can't teach an old god new tricks? Glory!" Mrs. Betty Bowers

Henry Cabot Henhouse III-American Hero

Rita Jean Snoddy Davis (1931-2012)

Clan Snoddy morns the loss of one of its finest.  We thank Sid for being a loving caring husband to her.  He was with her and cared for her through the entire long fight.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to Sid, her children, her sister Mary, and all who loved her, some of whom are mentioned in this obituary:

FAYETTEVILLE — Rita Jean Snoddy Davis of Fayetteville, Ark., died April 16, 2012, at her home. Her husband, Sid, and daughter, Cathy, were with her. Rita was born Feb. 4, 1931, in Coal Hill, Ark., to Rita Arnold Snoddy and Jim Snoddy.

She grew up in Mulberry, Ark., and graduated from Van Buren, Ark., High School. She graduated from the University of Arkansas with a BSBA and later obtained her master’s degree in public administration. She taught at Fayetteville High School and served Fayetteville on the City Planning Commission. She served for many years as Federal Court Clerk for Judges Paul X Williams and Frank Waters. A lifelong Democrat, she endowed the Rita Snoddy Davis Access Arkansas Scholarship for the outstanding political science major in the University of Arkansas’s Fulbright College.

Rita will be remembered by all who knew her as a loving, fair and open person who never met a stranger. She was brave, loyal, generous and outspoken. With her adventurous spirit, she and Sid traveled widely making friends wherever they were. Rita was a consummate friend to both old friends and new. She and Sid were known for their hospitality, opening their home for happy occasions in Fayetteville and at their second home at Lake Tahoe, Nev.

To remember Rita is to remember what a Razorback fan she was, especially a fan of basketball. Rita and her mother flew on the plane with Eddie Sutton’s basketball team to the Alaska Shootout in Anchorage in 1980, the first year the team was in that tournament. To remember Rita is also to remember her with a book or the New York Times. She was a great reader and a great learner.

Rita’s affiliations include Delta Delta Delta, PEO and the Modern Literature Club.

Rita was preceded in death by her son, James Marion McRee.

She is survived by her best love and companion-in-life, Sidney Parker Davis Jr., to whom she was married for 37 years. She is also survived by her daughter, Cathy McRee Hancock and her husband, Mark, of Bentonville, Ark.; her stepson, Drew Davis and his wife, Susan, of Fayetteville; and stepdaughter, Gail Davis O’Donnell of Little Rock. “Mama Rita” enjoyed all her grandchildren, Travis Jennings Hancock and wife, Alyssa, of Bentonville, Faith Ann Hancock of Fayetteville, Emma O’Donnell of Little Rock, Jenny Davis Jackson and her husband, Eric, of Nashville, Tenn., Parker and Kathryn Davis of Little Rock, and John Michael Davis of Fayetteville. Rita’s three great-grandchildren are, Madeleine Hancock, Emmett Jackson and Olivia Davis. Rita’s sisters, close to her heart, also survive her. They are, Mary Snoddy Pratt and husband, Zeke, of Alma, Ark., and Anita Snoddy Paddock of Fort Smith, Ark. A full dozen nieces and nephews hold their Aunt Rita in dear esteem.

Memories of Rita will color, please and be an inspiration in the lives of many people for years to come.

The family would like to extend special thanks to Dr. Alexander Burnett of UAMS, Little Rock, Dr. Malcolm Hayward and Dr. Eric Schaefer and the nurses and staff of the Highlands Oncology Clinic, and the Washington Regional Medical Center Hospice nurses who gave Rita the medical help and constant assurance that allowed her to survive ovarian cancer for a rewarding five-and-a-half years.

A memorial service for Rita will be held on Friday, April 20, at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church on Calvin Street in Fayetteville.

Memorials may be made to the Rita Snoddy Davis Access Arkansas Scholarship. Checks should be made to the University of Arkansas Foundation and sent to Office of Development, Fulbright College, 525 Old Main, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Memorials may also be made to the James McRee Garden fund at the Fayetteville Public Library. Checks should be made to the Fayetteville Public Library Foundation and sent to Fayetteville Public Library, 401 W. Mountain St., Fayetteville, AR 72701.

To sign the online guest book, visit www.mooresfuneralchapel.com.