Anna T Myers Hall-Beede, b. 2/Aug/1966, d. 8/Sep/2018

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Clyde- Anna T Myers Hall-Beede, age 52, a beautiful and deeply loved lady, entered into her place of eternal peace and solace on Saturday, September 8, 2018.

A native of Polk County, Florida, Anna had made her home in Haywood County for the past 25 years. She had honorably served her country as a United States Air Force Veteran and had been employed as a paralegal in Waynesville retiring with several years of dedicated service. She was of the Baptist faith. Her love of horses was evident all throughout her life and during her younger years she performed in rodeos and participated in barrel racing. Anna also enjoyed riding motorcycles and making wonderful memories with her family. Her great love for her family and especially her grandchildren was truly immeasurable. Anna had dedicated her life to “ raising her boys” and her amazing great strength and courage is an example for each of us to follow. Let us each remember Anna’s words,“Live each day like it is the first, last and best day you’ll ever have.”

She was preceded in death by her parents, Andrew Leach, Sr. and Ardelle Burns Leach and also her brother, Michael Myers.

Surviving are her loving husband, Donnie Beede of Clyde ; her sons, Kenneth Keefer of Waynesville and Stephen Hall and his wife, Chasity Hall of Rock Hill, South Carolina; five grandchildren; two sisters and eight brothers.

A celebration of life service will be held at 3:00 pm Saturday, September 22, 2018 at The Historic Grove Church located at Crawford / Ray Memorial Gardens in Clyde.

Crawford / Ray Funeral Home and Cremation Service is honored to be caring for the Hall-Beede family.

Sourced from: http://www.crawfordray.com/obituaries/anna-t-myers-hall-beede

My day with node.js

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It’s been a long time since I had FUN with a programming language. Today I had decided to take some time and dig nose deep into node.js. I’ve written much with Javascript before, and have always wanted to create RESTful services with something that wasn’t PHP, and from what i’ve heard node.js is a nice transition for a developer wanting to learn a new thing.

So, step 1 was to get some revision loaded up. Instead of apt-get or yum installing myself a version, I decided to get v8.11.3 (at this time is LTS) and install it in /usr/share/node. I symlinked all necessary executables to /usr/bin, and node -v’d myself to satisfactory execution.

I did the obligatory hello-world.js, and a subsequent cURL later to localhost:3000 got me really tickled. Being familiar with Javascript this was a confusing walk in the park. I decided to go ahead and github/public my musings and ramblings and set some goals, as I do have a destination with this.

https://github.com/mjheick/nodejs-learnings

002-is-global.js: First thing was to find out if I have access to global variables. Yes. Yes I do. Thanks Javascript for still allowing this to happen.

003-what-is-req-and-res.js: Then, with this res and req, I had to find out the contents of them. There had to be a Data::Dumper or var_dump somehow, and (since Javascript) there was the trusty console.log() to inspect these variables. #awesome

004-rest-verbs.js: Cause we’re building something RESTful, I needed to think if I had access to some Verbs. Low and behold, after skimming the node.js api for http the .method was smack in my face. It really came down to RTFM.

005-list-add-remove.js: I just took off from there. We have access to a global, we can make logic decision based on methods passed, and now we can pass a querystring and parse it up! At this point things were looking fairly awesome.

006-post-list-add-remove.js: We can’t use querystring for long, so I had to convert it to data passed in the request. After reading how Events and EventEmitter worked, this seemed quite natural. Got into some try/catching as well, and now explicitly taking in JSON data as well. Just a couple steps away from what we need to actually do!

007-list-with-expired-items.js: At this point we needed to store data with some “life” tied to it. i had to kick in some setInterval logic to scan the list of items that we’re storing and cull any that have expired. I also approached a level of pride in my code by making it look more presentable. At this point of excitement I had decided to develop a dataloader to “test” how well it can load and purge data, as well as overall node.js performance.

008-persistent-executed-list.js: In loading node.js and terminating it I had to think ahead in “what to do if the process bombs out with data stored in it”. At this point I had plugged in two separate items:
A) process.on(), to hook in synchronous routines that saved data and performed any cleanup, and rightfully aborted the process.
B) fs.readFile() fs.writeFile, so that I can dump the “local memory storage” timely to disk in 30 seconds interval.

Overall, this was awesome. I wanted to be able to create a RESTful service quick, timely, and efficiently, with little “new knowledge” required from previous Javascript development, and this was exactly what I got.

Fallon Chamberlin, b. 21/Mar/1986, d.19/Jun/2011

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Fallon L. Chamberlin, 25, of Jamestown, died unexpectedly Sunday, June 19, 2011, at Hamot Medical Center, Erie, Pa.

She was born March 21, 1986, in Jamestown, the daughter of Robert and Dixie Taft Chamberlin of Falconer. Fallon was her mother’s “Baby Girl” and “Best Friend.”
A Chautauqua County resident all of her life, she was a 2004 graduate of Falconer Central School, received her associates degree in Early Childhood Development from Jamestown Community College and was continuing her education at Jamestown Community College in the registered nursing program.

She was employed at Ruby Tuesday’s as a server and was presently the director of the Falconer Central School marching band’s color guard.
Fallon enjoyed life, some of her favorite things being, fishing, camping, traveling, music, marching band and spoiling her nephew, Robert Patrick Chamberlin.
Sister of Justin (Cassandra) Chamberlin of Salamanca; fiance of Logan Stakelum of Jamestown; granddaughter of Emmeline Spaulding of Frewsburg, John and Bertha Taft of Gerry, and the late Frederick Chamberlin. She is also survived by aunts, uncles and cousins.

Sourced from FindAGrave, Facebook

Memorializing Facebook

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I have to admit that I’ve become very accustomed to performing “Facebook Memorializations” of old friends and families accounts. I feel it helps in preserving who the person really is, while giving an opportunity for friends and family to share things about them on their timelines.

Personally I’ve memorialized Connie Stack, Don Cestnik, and James Moser, and have plans on memorializing more once I get around to it. These were all “easy” once you were able to locate a legitimate Funeral Home or Print article website with an Obituary to link with a Date of Death.

I have also had an opportunity of using a legal letter about a person passing to help Jennifer memorialize Grant Everson. In her case, she was able to become the Legacy Contact so that she can accept friend requests for the page and such.

I do have one special one I’m preparing to memorialize, but I have to become one of the two legacy contacts for them so that he can have some lifelong maintenance.