This page is dedicated in memory
of my nephew, Tony Lynn Galloway.
Tony was born September 04, 1966
and died at St. Jude Children's
Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee
on December 21, 1978.
Tony loved the outdoors and
nature. He was a Boy Scout
until he developed luekemia
at the age of nine.
We love you and will always miss
you Tony but we know that God
needed you in Heaven as one of
his little Angels.
IN OUR HEARTS
We thought of you with love today.
But that is nothing new.
We thought about you yesterday and
days before that too. We think of
you in silence. We often speak
your name. Now all we have are
memories and your picture in a
a frame. Your memory is our
keepsake. With which we'll never
part. God has you in his keeping.
I'll lend you for a little time a child of mine," he said.
"For you to love the while he lives, and mourn when he's dead.
It may be six or seven years of twenty-two or three.
But will you till I call him back, take care of him for Me?
He'll bring his charms to gladden you, and should his stay be brief,
You'll have his lovely memories as solace for your grief.
I cannot promise he will stay, since all from earth return,
But there are lessons taught down there I want this child to learn.
I've looked this wide world over in My search for teachers true,
And from the throngs that crowd life's lanes, I have selected you.
Now will you give him all your love, nor think the labor vain,
Nor hate Me when I come to call and take him back again?
I fancied that I heard them say, "Dear LORD, THY WILL BE DONE."
For all the Joy Thy Child shall bring, the risk of grief we'll run.
We'll shelter him with tenderness, we'll love him while we may.
And for happiness we've know, forever grateful stay.
But shall the Angel call him much sooner than we planned,
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes and try to understand.
