COUSIN THOMAS, LOVED YOU LIKE YOU LIKE A BROTHER. GOING TO MISS YOU. YOU TRAVELED THE ROAD THROUGH THE JOURNEY OF THIS LIFE. GOD CALLED YOU TO COME HOME ON HIS TIME. WHEN WE WERE KIDS, YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO GROW UP TO BE A PREACHER LIKE DADDY, SO WE WOULD PLAY CHURCH AND YOU WOULD BE THE PREACHER. SHEILA AND GAYLEN WERE THE CHOIR, I WAS THE PIANIST. YOU WOULD HAVE US SINGING YOUR FAVORITE SONG, GOING UP A YONDER”, AND WE WOULD END WITH A SONG BY REV. JAMES CLEVELAND OR REV. CLEOPHUS ROBINSON. GRANDMA MORNETTE WOULD MAKE US STOP PLAYING CHURCH WHEN YOU WANTED TO COLLECT MONEY. THOMAS, YOU SERVED YOUR PURPOSE IN LIFE. LOVE YOU AND IS GOING TO MISS THE CALLS OF YOU CHECKING UP ON ME.