JESSICA FLETCHER AND ME

1961 Groveton High Thespians — Front Row– Judy Lindberg, Susan Szadokierski, Susan Goggin, Belle Richey, Janice Hardy. — Second Row– Roberta Stowell, Bette Barttelmes, Sarah Dickinson, Denise Kogelman, Susan Zimmer. — Third Row– Alice Howzdy, Tony George, Lisa Dunn, Eileen Seidell, Pat Holmes, Janet Gilmore.– Fourth Row– Barton Bean, Lynn Craven, Tommy Harris, Bill Lyons, Susan Remington.

Angela Lansbury died last Monday. Her character Jessica Fletcher on the TV show, “Murder She Wrote,” was my hero. Well, I’m no Jessica Fletcher. I don’t have the type of mind needed to teach English, write novels, solve mysteries, and to help others. I did some acting in high school. (See the pictures above.) But because I had difficulty acting like a mother I lost the part of Elwood P. Dowd’s mother in “Harvey” to Janet. I did play the part of the daughter Murtle May. So my ambition at this stage in my life is still to write novels, solve mysteries, and to help other people.

Colossians 1: 24 Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. 25 I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— 26 the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people.