The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
PAGE 11 - April 25, 2012
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT,
Editorial - Opinion - Commentary
IN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA 2011-CP-765
Letter to the Editor:
IN RE: Estate of MARTHA R. WOOD, Deceased.
Re: What happened to INGLIS?
I’m hearing a LOT of idioms here (I did not say idiots). The words, that INGLIS citizens
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are now using seem not to be their own; nor, what I have personally listened to for 20
The administration of the Estate of MARTHA R. WOOD, deceased, File number  years. They are not black and white, (meaning TRUTH or not) anymore, like they USE
2011-CP-765, is pending in the Circuit Court for Citrus County, Florida, Probate Division,  to be. Inglis is speaking in varying shades of gray!! The articles and town meetings prove
the address of which is 110 North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, FL 34450. The names and  my point.
addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set
For instance:..COMPELLED...definitions: (1) force or oblige (someone) to do
forth below.
something. (2) bring about something by use of force or pressure. (3) i.e.”Duty compelled
All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against  the soldiers to volunteer for the mission.” (4) To necessitate or pressure by...... (and), the
decedent’s estate, including unmatured, contingent or unliquidated claims, on whom a copy  favorite one:, CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE.....(1) caught between two arguing people or
of this notice is erved must file their claims with this court WITHIN THE LATER OF  groups.....based on the literal meaning of caught in the crossfire. (trapped....). Does anyone
THREE MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF HIS NOTICE  see similarities here? What DID happen to the backbone of this beautiful little town? Was
OR THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE  the backbone “compelled” to crumble or “just caught in the middle”, when it crumbled. 20
ON THEM.
years is a long time, but many have been here a lifetime. Things do change; but, NEVER
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All other creditors of the decedent and persons having claims or demands against  does integrity change, i.e.: INTEGRITY... (1) firm adherence to a code of especially moral
the decedent’sHometown unmatured,for the Nature Coast  must file  or artistic values; incorruptibility. (2) an unimpaired condition, soundness. (3) the quality or
estate, including News contimgent or unliquidated claims,
Servtheir Inglis,with this Court WITHIN THREEHernando, Crystal River &OF THE  state of being complete.
ing Claims Yankeetown, Dunnellon,  MONTHS AFTER THE DATE Homosassa
TRISHA GAIL BALLARD, Inglis,
FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE.
Letter to the Editor:
Address: 5093 S. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, FL 34446
Re: Showing Respect – The Family’s of Cedar of Lebanon Cemetery.
ALL CLAIMS NOThonFILED WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.
P SO e: (352) 489-4588 • Fax: (727) 447-5788
Recently I experienced a pleasant waking. I was invited to the Cedars of Lebanon
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Cemetery just north of Ingles, off of highway 19/98. Several times each year the descen-
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dants of the people buried there spend the day grooming and cleaning the cemetery grounds
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and having a luncheon.
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Personal Representative:
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As I looked around at the people having lunch and listened to their conversations,
I realized that it was more then a day of cleaning and fixing but a gathering of family’s, a
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gathering of friends.
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Most of us view a cemetery as a place of sadness because we have lost loved ones.
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We go, bring flowers and spend a few moments then leave because we don’t like the feeling
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of loss. Not these family members of Cedars of Lebanon Cemetery. To them it’s honoring
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those who have gone before them, a remembrance of those lives that meant so much.
A way of honoring lives past, something most of us have forgotten or never learned,
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A continued honoring of the one’s who have brought us here and into this world, the one’s
that paved our way. Oh, it’s a clean up day but it’s also much more then that, a projection of
respect.
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Now someone wants to develop a mining operation next to this 130 year plus, fam-
ily cemetery, property line to property line.
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To some the sound of money means more then anything, but not by all. To some,
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showing a lack of respect in pursuit of the almighty dollar is justified by the ring of a cash
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register’s bell, but not to all.
To most of us the continued existence of this little cemetery doesn’t mean much.
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We’re not involved with this little cemetery. None of our ancestors are buried there, wrong.
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It should mean everything to all of us.
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That’s why our county, our state and our country are in such dire straights. The
problems of the guy down the street, that’s their problem, not mine.
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We should all take a page from the book these family members of Cedars of Leba-
non Cemetery project. Caring and showing respect for past, present and future. Folks, with
that you can’t go wrong.
Noel K. Desmond, Chiefland
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