This memorial website was created in the memory of My Mother, My Hero, our loved one, Carol Ann (Compton) Clements who was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma on the glorious day of July 29, 1940 and passed away on the mournful day of January 08, 2007 at the age of 66. We will remember her forever.
Her colorful nature will shine down and through all who knew her-

*I found the following poem in the memorial book for my mothers service, that I would like to share with everyone who loved her*:

'Echoing Love'

If the words I have spoken
echo on your mind,
my voice can never be stilled.

If you remember my mirth 
when I enter your thoughts,
my smile cannot be erased.

If my mem'ry lightens your life
like the morning sunrise
then each day we'll meet anew.

If you remember me with love,
how can I then be gone.
For in your heart I shall live on.

-unknown



Gone From My Sight

I am standing upon the seashore. a ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and the sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes!"

And that is dying.

-Henry Van Dyke