Thelma Bilyeu's Living Room

On Wednesday night Rick and I joined other members of the Bilyeu Family for a Thanksgiving Service with the Ridgecrest Baptist Church family at their Remington's Event Complex. This eighth annual event called Thelma Bilyeu's Living Room is another way of carrying on Bilyeu Family tradition of "making music". There were about 30 family members whose voices blended together singing songs of the faith that we learned as children. Cousins were not all old, as new babies are added to the family on a regular basis. These little ones also love to sing and share scriptures they have memorized. Uncle Hosea and Aunt Thelma's house always seemed to be a gathering place where we all loved to go. Time changes many things, we miss our loved ones who have gone on but cherish a heritage that keeps us close. I love this picture of Aunt Thelma and four of my cousins, Anita, Gay, Hosea and Buddy Mack. It was taken in 1955 in front of the old log house my family lived in on what is now called Day Road.