Belated Birthday Greeting

In loving memory

of my daughter

Loretto L. "Lorrie" Frank

on her 41st Birthday

November 11, 1966

June 8, 2002

I'd like the memory of me

to be a happy one.

I'd like to leave an afterglow

of smiles when day is done.

I'd like to leave an echo

whispering softly down the ways.

Of happy times and laughing times

and bright and sunny days.

I'd like the tears of those

who grieve to dry before the

sun, of happy memories

that I leave when life is done.