My Mama passed away this spring. I wrote her obituary for the funeral home. Shee is buried in Brookside Memorial Park, Houston, Texas, next to Daddy. They share a lovely double memorial stone. Sally Lucille Irwin Buntyn, age 79, of Houston, Texas passed away April 10, 2022. Sally was born October 15, 1942 in Houston, […]
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Sally Lucille (Irwin) Buntyn (1942-2022)
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Joe Stanley Buntyn Jr. (1940-2021)
Posted November 4th 2022 by sbuntynMy Daddy passed away last summer. I wrote his obituary for the funeral home. He is buried in Brookside Memorial Park, Houston, Texas. Joe Stanley Buntyn, Jr., age 80, of Houston, Texas passed away June 15, 2021. Joe was born October 21, 1940 in Houston, the eldest child of Joe Stanley Buntyn and Alma Louise […]
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – 2019 – #1 “First”
Posted January 6th 2019 by sbuntynI recently joined Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. I’ll receive a prompt for each week to write and share something about an ancestor. This week’s prompt is “First” – it can be interpreted however I choose. I’m going to write about the first time I learned about family history and genealogy, in […]
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“Mimi and Dona”, or “Grace and Dorothy”
Posted December 23rd 2015 by sbuntynI watched a documentary on PBS tonight called “Mimi and Dona”. It is part of the Independent Lens documentary series. The film follows Mimi, the elderly mother and care-giver of Dona, her intellectually-disabled adult daughter. Mimi can no longer care for Dona and must find her a new home. I cried my way through this film. I had […]
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“TCM Presents Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir”
Posted June 4th 2015 by sbuntynI enrolled in the above-named course at Canvas Network after a friend posted the link on Facebook a couple of weeks ago. (Thanks, Christy P.!) The class started on 6/1/15 and runs through 8/3/15. It’s using TCM’s Summer of Darkness film festival as its main source. I am a cord-cutter and haven’t had cable access in over 5 years, so […]
In memoriam: Shirley Mae (Starcher) White
Posted June 2nd 2015 by sbuntynWe got the news today that Shirley Mae (Starcher) White passed away today, during a nap from which she did not wake. Shirley was my mother-in-law for the past 25 years. She was not always an easy person for me to get along with, but I respected her as my elder and the mother of […]