In Loving Memory of Georgia Mae Cruise
Letters and Memories from Family and Friends
I remember when I was a child, Mom was cooking beans for supper. Well, with all that mom had to do with the five kids, the beans got scorched. Mom quickly buried the scorched beans and made a fresh pot of beans so he wouldn’t find out about what she had done. Several years later Mom told on herself, only to find out he liked his beans lightly scorched.
We will miss you Mom,
Love, Dick Cruise
Remembering Mother
I remember when we kids were younger and grounded, we wanted to go play with our friends. We would wait until Mom was taking her afternoon nap, then we would go ask her if we could go play with our friends, and she would say “uh-huh”. We would usually be back home before she woke up, except one time. Boy, were we in trouble when we told her she said we could go when she was napping.
When the family would gather together, our family time was playing hand-n-foot (a card game). In that game there was no friend or family. It was all fun.
Every year about two weeks before Christmas, Gayle, Annie, Shawna (later Kimberley and Katie and sometimes Cameron) would usually gather at Mom’s to make a lot of candy for our families, friends and co-workers. That was always fun.
Mom loved to read all the time, especially westerns. When she was younger she played basketball in High School and loved to draw and paint.
I am so glad that God gave us this beautiful, wonderful, caring special woman as our mother. Anyone can be a mom, but it takes a very special person to be a mother. She passed all her good traits to each and every one of her kids. She taught us right from wrong, to be honest and to treat everyone the way you would want to be treated.
I will miss her, but will not forget her. The Lord called her home; He hadher mansion built for her. I know she is with Jesus now, sitting at his feet and that gives me a lot of comfort knowing this.
Gayle (Cruise) Weiherer
My Final Words to Grandma Dearest
With your eyes so blue and your love so true, A smile as wide as the oceans mile,There’s no wonder why I miss you nnd now you’re gone and left us all knowing we’re truly blessed and looking back at the past, I now know you were the best. God bless the grandma I lay to rest.
My final words to grandma dearest.
Your loving granddaughter, Lesley
To the Cruise Family,
First of all let me tell you how grateful I am to each and every one of you for letting me be a part of your mother’s life. She is, was and always will be embedded in my heart. I cannot remember a time when I didn’t know any of you.
It saddens my heart to know I could not make it to her homecoming. However, I am there in spirit.
I would like to take a small moment of your time to share with everyone some of my fond memories of Mrs. Georgia Cruise.
As a child, I can recall banging on the back door, asking if Ann could come out and play. She would be sitting at that old butcher block kitchen table and I would hear her say, “Ann, Deena here y’all go outside and play”. If Ann would come down to my grandparents house, it was always “Be back in an hour” I don’t know how many times we got in trouble for not being back in an hour. How many mud pies did we make in those back yards?
When Ann and I would go to Quick and Split for a “suicide soda”, she would always tell us to walk around the golf course, not across it. We would walk across it. What did we know we… were just kids.
She made sure we went to Vacation Bible School and to the Ozark Fair every year.
She asked me to be her maid-of-honor in her wedding. There was a moment when Mrs. Cruise looked at me and said, “I can’t believe you’re here. I am so happy to see you and thank you for being here for Ann”. I told her wild horses couldn’t keep me away. I think I even saw a tear, but she had the biggest and brightest smile that day.
When my eldest sister passed, she and Ann came to Barstown, Ok., Mrs. Crusie looked at me and gave me the biggest hug and told me that she loved me but I already knew that. It sure was nice to hear.
Then, at Christmas 2003, I was in the kitchen helping Ann cook Christmas dinner. Mrs. Cruise was just standing in the corner watching. I looked up and asked her, “Mrs. Cruise, did you ever think you would see the day we would go from making mud pies to making you Christmas dinner?” She laughed and said “No, but it is a pretty sight”.
Then she scolded me and told me to stop calling her Mrs. Cruise. I told her I couldn’t call her Georgia, I wasn’t raised that way, but I could call her Momma Cruise, and that is just what I did.
I gave her a big, fuzzy blanket that year and told her that was nothing but love to keep her warm. You should have seen that smile.
I say all this to let you know how much your mother meant to me.
Now I say to each of you, remember the good times and the bad. (They will be good times one day also.) Hold on to one another, for you will need each other now. Keep the love going and tell one another how much you mean to them. Each of you now has a beautiful angel watching over you. That alone is love in itself.
Thank you again for allowing me to share your mother with me.
Momma Cruise I will miss you, but never will I forget you….
Love you all,
Deena Murphy