Why my father might not wanted a service
Daniel Johnson Matthews Senior 1930 - 2010 My father Daniel Johnson Matthews, Senior had obituaries ran in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Des Moines Register newspapers today, and we spared no expense in publishing those memorials. They are not cheap either, as one of the last true functions of a newspaper is to hold the newsprint in your hand, to clip out a column or picture of a long lost loved one or memory as a last vestige of a gone by era. While no one except my bosses of work have really asked, he did not want a ceremony or memorial service, and I have pondered his reasons both requests the weeks before and the week after his passing this last Monday in November on the hilltop in his Druid Hills family homestead that once stretched from the current location of Callanwolde to that where Scott Boulevard and North Decatur bisect in Decatur. If you would like to read about the street called Oakdale Road , there remains an e-book version of that which my grandmother...