Contributions to the tribute of Eleanor Ruth Flint

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Jan Janson posted a condolence

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Dear Mike(y), I am up North for a week and heard of your Mom's passing from our Enterprise friends. I am so sorry for your loss. I know how close you were. Please accept my deepest sympathy. My prayers are with you now and always.- jan

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Mae posted a condolence

Sunday, September 20, 2015

I like to think mine and Ellie's was a one of a kind relationship. She was my big sister and my biggest pain in the butt! She never let me do fun things like walk out on that long cement structure when I was little for fear I would fall into the river. As children our sled was a waxed cardboard box. When momma got her wringer washer it was she who thought it would zing over the snow and she was right! We waxed it up like all other 'sleds' and off we went. What she didn't think of was what the dents in the lid from hitting rocks would look like in light of day. Momma could hardly notice and even though it was Her idea, we all got spankings! She was the studious one of we three, Mike, Ellie and I. She would make us sit while she was our 'teacher' and make us learn things even before the state said we had to! Did I mention she was also bossy? haha She also declined to join Mike and I as we did some of our greatest ideas! There was the time Lizzie had yellow jaundice and the doctor brought her bananas and chocolate. We were not allowed any as we didn't have it! Well I was determined we Would have it also! I wanted that candy and fruit!! After Sunday School I asked could I have some of the yellow crepe paper and they said sure so Mike and I took it to the river. I soaked it and then we rubbed it all over us. Imagine the joy as momma gave us all the fruit and candy! We hit the mother lode that time. Then, quite unexpected, the doctor arrived to check us. After that he brought us all fruit and candy too. Ellie got to share that but she didn't get in trouble and I still think that a tad unfair... As young teens it was she who I learned to jitterbug with. We loved to dance. There was never a song that didn't lure us to our feet to boogie on down. We got it backwards seeing it on a tv and then practicing without seeing them again. We wound up that old Victrola and off we went! We could only dance with each other and now I shall never jitterbug on this earth again. My partner is gone.... When I eloped momma didn't know where I went or how I was but Ellie did. Ellie always knew the most intimate secrets I had. She was my older sister and these things were safe with her. Always growing up we may not have had lots of food or new clothes but we always had each other, Always! There was momma, Ellie, Mike, and I. First momma left and then Mike. She knows I never wanted to know how to live without her in my life. Thank goodness she left her memories and a lot of laughs. I close my eyes and Sissy and Sassy are back on the stage making people laugh. We are in church preaching to the little children. She is helping me make fried raw chicken for my first and last picnic date! We lived, we learned, we fought, we loved. My memory still runs through the old house, slamming doors, playing hide and seek, running the circle around the bedrooms.........and before I know it, we will all be running in Heaven. I will be able to see her in her glorified body no longer bent over and full of pain but rather upright, limber, and full of life once again. She has left me her son to love and a new niece, Charla. She has left all who knew her the best example she could give of the meaning of 'love one another as I have loved you.

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Valerie Ackroyd posted a condolence

Friday, September 18, 2015

I'm very sorry for the loss of Ellie, she had helped me out with some family genealogy. Again I'm sorry for her loss.

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Karen Ward Houghton posted a condolence

Friday, September 18, 2015

Eleanor and I were classmates at Carthage Central. I always enjoyed her company and was a good friend. While I haven't seen her in many years, I wish to convey my condolences to Eleanor's family. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Karen W. Houghton

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Bonnie Davenport lit a candle

Thursday, September 17, 2015

I remember Ellie very well. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family.

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charla whitmarsh lit a candle

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

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charla whitmarsh posted a condolence

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

I just would like to say what a special person she was and not to just myself but so many others. I will always remember the late night talks we would have on the telephone sometimes for hours. This beautiful woman didnt care if what she was going through if you needed her she was always there. She would not let cancer bring her down. and when the dr. told her only months she said why that is just a number and we will let god be the judge of that. I lost my mom at 17 but I found her again in Ellie especially these last 9 months. I wasnt even looking but I was having such a hard time with loss of my brother and she was there to comfort me when I was going through stuff with my best friend she was there to get me through it. Ma helped me plan a baby shower for my daughter and when I was having a rough time with her moving away who did I turn to yup again it was Ma Ellie. I feel so honored to have been considered one of children. We will all miss you Ma. RIP sweet angel I know your on gods right hand side.

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Amy Clark posted a condolence

Monday, September 14, 2015

Mike, I'm so sorry to hear about your Mom. She was one of a kind and I always remember her smile. Please let me know if there is anything you need. I'll be praying for you. God Bless!

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Monday, September 14, 2015

Eleanor Ruth Flint

1946 - 2015

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