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By  Betty Etchison West

Cana/Pino Correspondent

Come to breakfast Saturday, July 20 at Wesley Chapel United Methodiist Church Fellowship Hall from 6:30-10 a.m. The menu includes country ham, sausage, scrambled eggs, grits, red-eye gravy, sawmill gravy, homemade biscuits, baked apples, jelly, orange juice and coffee. There is no set price, but donations are appreciated.  Wesley Chapel is three miles west of Farmington just off of NC 801 N. on Pino Road. We hope you will come, have breakfast, and spend time visiting with friends, old and new.

The Wesley Chapel Women of Faith met on Thursday morning, July 11 with Kathy Ellis presenting the program.  The ladies invite  Women of Faith of all denominations on the second Thursday of the month at 10 a.m.

Descendants of W.W. “Bud” and Agnes Miller West seem to be falling apart, an arm here and a leg ther” as the old saying goes. These are grandchildren of the Wests. All of their children, four sons and four daughters, are all dead and all of their spouses except me are also dead.

DeEtta West Thomas, daughter of Luther and his first wife, Lovie Rupert West, had one or two strokes a few weeks ago. She spent more time than she wanted to in the hospital. She returned to her Clemmons home only to have to return the hospital.  DeEtta is a lovely, sweet girl just as her mother was, and we are all upset that she had a stroke. DeEtta and Bill Thomas’ daughter, Dianne Newsome, cared for her mother while she was in the hospital and at home. We hope DeEtta’s hospital visit will be short because she wants to be at her home.

Boyd West, son of Luther West and his second wife, Ostine Warlick West, who he married some time after Lovie’s death, had to have a serious shoulder operation, which is going to require a long recuperation time. He ended up at DeEtta and Bill’s house after he left the hospital so Dianne had another patient. Boyd came home last week, but I don’t know if he can make it on his own as he continues to recuperate.

If that was not enough West trauma, Cynthia West Potts, daughter of Lonnie and Dorothy Allen, West, broke her leg.  She was able to return to her home in Pino, but had complications and had to go back to the hospital last week.  Cynthia is a sweet, loving gurl, and it beaks our hearts.

Frances West Tutterow, my daughter, had cataract surgery last week, and I am happy to report that she is doing well with her recovery.

Kathy and Bob Ellis returned from Florida last Monday. Kathy spent a week with her family: son, Ethan, his wife, Allison, grandsons, Reid and Luke, and friend, Stephanie Snyder at Disney.  Bob spent the week with his daughter, Amy Ellis Horn, and her husband, Travis.

Betty West’s visitors were cousins, John Godwin, and his mother, Margaret Rich Godwin, from Greensboro, all descendants of Isaac Newton Frost and wife Mary Magdalene Eaton Frost, who are buried in the Old Frost Cemetery on Woodward Road. In 1776, the last remains were put in the Frost Cemetery.  That was the ashes of Minnie Frost Rands, granddaughter on Isaac Newton Frost, who, had 13 brothers and sisters. Minnie Frost Rands was the daughter of Johnny Frost, Isaac Newton Frost’s son and the man who built the Frostland house. That cemetery was overgrown when John Godwin get interested in family history and cleaned it. He has spent more hours than we can count on the project. He has it about completed, and has made pictures of all old stones and put them on a chart. He brought the chart for me to add information. John is the Great-great-great grandson on Isaac Newton Frost.  The Frost Cemetery is on private property so going there requires permission of the owner of the land around the cemetery.