FROM FIRST COUSIN JOSEPH B. HUDSON, JR., ELDEST SON OF THE LATE MARY WYATT CLINE HUDSON, MATERNAL AUNT TO JANIE, AND WIFE OF JOE B. HUDSON, SR., WHO PASSED AWAY IN DECEMBER OF 19967. I WILL NEVER FORGET ALL OF THE VISITS WITH "UNCLE LEBBY" AND "AUNT GERALDINE" BOTH IN LAKE CHARLES AND OUT AT THE EXTENDED CLINE FAMILY'S HOME IN BIG LAKE. AND "THE KIDS"!! "MARY LEBBY," "MISS GERRY," AND THE FAMILY'S "WHIRLWIND, ACURATELY NICKNAMED "ZIP" ... WHO WAS, OF COURSE, JANIE. SHE MADE AN ACTIVE YOUNG KITTEN LOOK TAME BY COMPARISON !! THE CLINE FAMILY, LIKE ALL FAMILIES, HAD ITS SHARE OF HAPPINESS AND OF DIFFICULTIES. HOWEVER, "FAMILY BLOOD IS FAMILY BLOOD." "ZIP," REST IN PEACE. AS THE BLESSING GOES IN OUR RUGGED OLD 1928 EPISCOPAL BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: "...MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU, MAY THE LORD BE GRACIOUS UNTO YOU, MAY THE LORD LIFT UP THE LIGHT OF HIS COUNTENANCE UPON YOU, AND GIVE YOU HIS PEACE, NOW AND FOREVER MORE." WITH MUCH LOVE ... WHICH KNOWS NO DISTANCE ... COUSIN JOE.