I can remember how proud you were when you first showed me pictures of Tristan after he was born-and I was just so so in awe and blown away by how much he looked like you I just so sorely regret that we won't get to share the same experience again-any experience. I've thought for days and days after your service, after reaching out to others to do so as well, but I just am so at a loss here. I had a wonderful opportunity to speak at your service-All I know is that there are not words that I can compose which are powerful enough to express my sense of loss and sadness. Travis, I wish I could find the words I need to say here. "I love you forever, I like you for always, as long as I live, my Pentecostal friend you will be." "For so an ENTRANCE shall be ministered unto Marilyn ABUNDANTLY into the Kingdom of Heaven.ABUNDANT ENTRANCE-that would be YOU! II Peter 1:11 paraphrase Later, Friend.Adonna Otwell I knew church was going to be better when you walked in, because you are a carrier of the ministry of PRESENCE. You made me feel loved and special every time I saw you. It feels like a little bit of Pentecost shifted upward. So "count years as months, count the months as weeks, count the weeks as days, any day now, we TOO will be going home." I will see you 'THERE." You all shout for me, until I can touch down with you. I was just talking to you at the North Texas District Council in June.I didn't know you were about to "graduate," especially with your Master's Degree! Marilyn, you left me in shock, but it is wrapping up, and I will see you in days.
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Your encouragement kept me going so many times. I always knew you to be a true Pentecostal, because you could not stand anything to be called Pentecostal, if it was not. I might be a little bit jealous with you, Lillie and Barbara up there, and I didn't get invited. I am still shaking my head in disbelief.this is surreal.Marilyn, we worked so many prayer lines together at the North Texas District Women's Ministries Retreats! I will not speak of you in past tense, because you are more alive than ever, and there is only a thin veil between us and you. I know Jim Bob is hovering around somewhere up in heaven right now, farewell my friend. Jim Bob and I became good friends and I got to know his family over the years who he truly loved and was so proud of. I never knew if he was offended by it because he was such a happy go lucky guy he never showed a temper or was known to get angry.
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Even all the other pilots and friends were calling him "Jim Bob". So that's how I started calling Jimmy "Jim Bob" and it has stuck ever since. We were in 412 training in Ft Worth when a bunch of us went to Billy Bobs after class one night and somehow or another the next day everybody in class was called a something Bob, even one of the instructors we called Alicia Bob. He came on board to pilot the new B412 the county was getting for medical which was the original "Trauma Hawk" and we were so lucky to have him. He eventually left the FGC to join the PBSO Aviation Unit. He was flying a B47 at the time so that tells you how long ago it was.
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Jimmy was with the FL Fish and Game Comm when I first met him.