Farewell Open House

We so appreciated our dear friends, Mark and Alice Rampton, for hosting an open-house farewell evening for us to visit with friends and be touched by their fond wishes.

The Ramptons have a tradition of writing and performing songs in commemoration of special events.  Here's their "Farewell Song for The Sherrys" (to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey") which they sang that evening:

Down in Corvallis

All covered with trees

Lives a nice couple

Tom and Annie Sherry.

They are great neighbors

Would do anything

Need a hand or a meal

Just give them a ring.

Raised a fine family

Four girls and three guys

16 sweet grandkids

Bring lots of surprise.

But life was too peaceful

For these busy two

Sittin' in hammocks

Just wouldn't quite do.

Serving a mission

Seemed the right thing, they say

So they're off to far Fiji

For five hundred & forty days.

We'll miss them both dearly

But we wish them the best

The Fijians are lucky

To have the Sherrys in their midst.