Days of Chaos

Elizabeth Howard passed away Saturday, March 26, 2022, in Tyler. She was born January 20, 1942, in Springfield, Missouri to the late Duane and Alene (Lambeth) Pringle. Elizabeth lived in Tyler, Texas for many years. She worked as a Church Secretary at the Friendly Baptist Church in Tyler, Tx for 35 years and was a member of Central Baptist Church in Lindale, Tx. Elizabeth loved reading.
Elizabeth is survived by a son, Byron Howard and wife, Kim of Lindale, Tx; daughter, Angie Daniels of Tyler, Tx; granddaughter, Olivia and husband Mitch Bodiford of Lindale, Tx; sister, Charlene and husband Bobby Overall of Tyler, Tx; niece Carmen and husband, Mike Matlock of Overton, Tx. 3 great-nephews, BJ, Joshua, and Caleb Matlock.
There will be a private graveside service.

Jerome Howard

TYLER — Jerome Howard, age 82, passed away Monday March 27th, 2023 in Tyler, Texas. He was born on October 9th, 1940 in Tyler, Texas and has been a life long resident. A visitation will be held on Thursday March 30th, 2023 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at Caudle-Rutledge-Daugherty Funeral Home. A private burial will be held at Hopewell Cemetery near Lindale. He went to SFA and East Texas State University obtaining a master’s degree and worked as a long time reserve officer for the Smith County sheriff’s department. He was a member of the Central Baptist Church in Lindale. He and his family owned and operated Howard Exxon on Gentry Parkway in Tyler for many years.

He was preceded in death by his parents Harvey Paul and Ora Ruth (Swan) Howard. He is survived by his son Byron Howard and wife; Kim of Lindale, daughter Angela Daniels of Tyler, sister Paulette and husband; Ronny Cole of Mount Sylvan, brother Kimble Howard of Lindale, and granddaughter Oliva and husband; Mitch Bodiford of Lindale, and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Mitch Bodiford, Mike Matlock, B.J. Matlock, Joshua Matlock, and Caleb Matlock

Graveside services for Frances Jeannine Matlock, 90, of Tyler, will be held on Wednesday, July 14, at 10:00 a.m. at Pleasant Retreat Acres in Tyler, with Rev. Mike Matlock & Rev. Byron Howard officiating under the direction of Jackson’s Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Home.

Jeannine passed away on July 8, 2021 at her home.

Jeannine was born June 21, 1931 in Hillsboro, Texas to James Paul & Vertie Leah Colbert.

She retired from Trinity Mother Frances. She loved her family, she was a wonderful Mother, Grandmother, and Great Grandmother.

Jeannine was preceded in death by her parents James Paul & Vertie Leah Colbert, husband Thomas L. Matlock, and her son James L. Matlock.

Jeannine is survived by her daughter, Linda Little of Tyler; her son and daughter in law Michael & Carmen Matlock of Overton; grandson and granddaughter-in-law Brent Little & Lauren Little, Pflugerville; grandsons B.J. Matlock, Caleb Matlock, and Joshua Matlock, all of Overton, great grand children Norah Little and Evan Little, both of Pflugerville; and brother Norman Colbert,

Pallbearers will be Brent Little, B.J. Matlock, Caleb Matlock, and Joshua Matlock.

Well guys I am on a roll with this declutter.
I am in the process of buying from my son his used Asus Flip Touchscreen Chromebook.
I am in the process of deleting information off of 2 laptops, 2 Ellipsis, and 3 Kindke Fires. I took a picture of the smaller electronics, and 3 pieces are not pictures. 2 laptops not in picture and 1Kindle Fire which took yo work so I could listen to music and not drain my battery. I will be bringing it home and getting it’s data removed.

I’m not a huge pink (color) fan, but I did think this mask was cute. Not typical me. But wanted to try. Lol

I think we have gotten out 2 more bags of trash just out of their closet. I can’t believe they are getting so into this. Yes it is 11:30 pm TX time….and they are still going strong.

Started Saturday night with a declutter area. Almost completely done with my room so I feel a tad free-er to move on to another area. So excited to do this for my house and have a nice clean house again. Go us! Boys helped me with this area.

All games are in this cabinet. No longer in two spots

It began in May and is still continuing but I just needed to see my progress.

Twins made watermelon jelly

Had the boys move my table from in front of my 4drawer file cabinet so I could put 3 years of Income Tax paperwork in the drawers and discard anything prior to 7 years. Are we still really keeping 7 years worth of Income Tax stuff?
Then back to declutter fest and getting more stuff off of my work table.
Mike thoroughly cleaned kitchen last weekend but not inside the cabinets.
Also I usually buy new tennis shoes and keep the latest shoes for just yard work….and I don’t really like the outdoors at all. Too old. Too hot. So today I flung 2 pair of tennis shoes to the curb. Filling up a 2nd large trash bag.
12:00Mike is rearranging furniture in our desk area and cleaning mopping. And cleared my desk off! He is amazing! (I just need to declutter drawers later.

To some of you you may see clutter…but if you had only seen it before you would totally think he rocks! It was very very very bad before.
I didn’t really intend on cleaning “some” of the file cabinet our but when you give a pig a pancake book comes to mind. Lol. I wanted to get IRS forms in the file cabinet which meant clearing out to only 2013-2019 in the file. Needed to get 2009-2012 out of the file and then realized I couldn’t find 15-16. Not a problem really but figured they were in hubby’s desk drawer so his drawers got purged real quick. Then back to these drawers and although I didn’t spend a great deal of time in my file cabinet….I did a quick we don’t own this and tossed out a few more papers while I was in there.
So hopefully back to my table. But with every step we are stepping in the right direction. May be out of order or take me longer than a normal human being, but I am doing something. (I have been ousted in the past on Facebook for how quickly one could clean her house compared to the time I was spending in one room….and I get she wasn’t decluttering OR deep cleaning.)(Her loss). And we all work at our own pace, and do our own thing, and have different challenges with health, number of people in house, number of people helping…etc.

1:00

Now got my bills sorted and in an older notebook that had 2017 stuff in it. But I reused the folders for my current bills. So that is done and organized.

Trip to the store and to get gas. Now it is close to 6:15 TX time. I purged some glass and mats for like 8 cross-stitch pieces that have been sitting on my side table for years. It is gone. I took the cross-stitch pieces and put them in a memory box.

Now going thru some “planners” info stuff and going to trash them or tear out important info and shred the pages.

Twins outside burning paperwork and books now. It’s all gone.

Just need to focus on few remaining things on table.