Winnie's Mom's Obituary

From Sarah's facebook post:

In celebration of Winnie's mom, Frances Evelyn Hough, a special lady and friend to me and many. She will be dearly missed.http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/macon/obituary.aspx?n=frances-e-hough&pid=155921105

Winnie's mom died early last Wednesday morning. Since it was Nora's winter break toward the end of last week, Steph and I had planned a visit to Asheville with a night in Gatlinburg at the end so the kids could do some winter swimming. We switched our plans and did kid things first, then went to Asheville for the family meal on Saturday.

Our plan was to go to the visitation and funeral on Sunday, but the weather looked bad and Sarah felt that we should leave in the morning instead of later in the day. We got through the gorge on I-40 just fine, but it started raining soon after and was raining hard by the time we got to Knoxville.

As we went north, the rain turned to freezing rain, slush, and snow. It was a slow trip over Jellico Mountain - probably it was fortunate that visibility was poor and we could only see what was immediately around us. We continued on in bad weather, then around Mt. Vernon, KY, the roads started to get better and north of Georgetown they were dry.

I know that Winnie's mom will be, as Sarah said, "dearly missed." Winnie's mom and dad lived fairly close to Asheville, and Winnie and Sarah have been spending lots of him with her dad.