Letters to My Daughter

By Frances Holloway

This book came about when my only daughter passed away in the early
morning of Easter Sunday 2013. She had cancer. She was doing very well.
The day before she passed, on Saturday, she and her loving husband had
gone to do some shopping. They ate dinner, watched a movie, and went
to bed around 10:00 p.m. or so. Her husband found her about 4:00 a.m.,
hanging over the bathtub. She was gone. That was the darkest day of my
life. She was only forty-four years old and a new grandmother. She loved
her babies and her husband. She is dearly missed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483687148

Frances Holloway

Her name is Frances Holloway, better known as Granny around here. She lives in Tatum, Texas, with her daughter and son-in-law, Karrie and J.J. Shivers. She is a retired cashier of forty-two years. She is now a caregiver to her dear friend, Rex Holder in Longview, Texas. She writes poetry given to her from Jesus, her best friend, in her spare time.

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Rev. date: 08/21/2013

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Contents

A Daughter

Preface

Slipping Away

God Gives Us Power

Is Love Really Enough?

The Devil at Work

Grandmother’s Little Hands

Just a Bump in the Road

Voice of a Songbird

Am I Not God’s Helper?

Puzzled

Granddaughter

Our Rocking Years

My Mom

My Friend

If I Only Knew

Sons

Kids

My Brother

Little Child

Snow Ball the Dog

This book came about when my only daughter passed away in the early morning of Easter Sunday 2013. She had cancer. She was doing very well. The day before she passed, on Saturday, she and her loving husband had gone to do some shopping. They ate dinner, watched a movie, and went to bed around 10:00 p.m. or so. Her husband found her about 4:00 a.m., hanging over the bathtub. She was gone. That was the darkest day of my life. She was only forty-four years old and a new grandmother. She loved her babies and her husband. She is dearly missed.

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Rhonda Michelle

My baby girl

Less than one, but I was blessed to have you for almost forty-five years.

A Daughter

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A daughter is so wonderful to have.

You can play dress-up with her and do her hair.

Tell her about boys and other things that

Moms tell their daughters.

A daughter can be your best friend or not.

She can break your heart, make you cry, or

Make you smile.

A daughter can hate you or love you.

It all depends on how you raise her.

Show her all the right ways that you know

To make her a better person.

After you’ve done your part,

The rest is up to her.

She will either make you or break you.

She will make you both happy and sad.

She will make you smile and cry.

But remember, she’s your little girl.

No matter how young she is

Or how old she gets,

Whatever road she chooses,

Always be there for her.

At the beginning of the road

And at the end of the road.

So if she strays a little