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It'sNever Too Late
By Marshi Lair, Canyon
t is unbelievable to me that I am was my "step" mother
67 years old. I still feel young, for 50 years.
Ibut mirrors don't lie. Where
did the years go? Life has been After graduating, I
wonderful, and life has been hard. went to college and to
During it all, my faith in God, in work and then met a
my family, and in the world of art wonderful man, Greg
in Amarillo have helped me to get Lair. We will celebrate
through the difficulties of life and our 48th anniversary
brought me great joy. soon, and I thank God
every day for him. We
I grew up in Amarillo with one had three children:
brother and a father who was in the Melissa, Abby, and
car business most of his life. My Brian. I was lucky to be
mother was very artistic but died a stay-at-home mom,
at the age of 35 from heart disease. and when I wasn't
That left me a young girl of twelve busy cooking, cleaning,
without a mother. My father tending to my children, cancer at the age of 27. God, my
remarried a couple of years later, and doing volunteer work, I family, and art were there to pull
which was very fortunate for me. dabbled in some sort of art, mainly me through my grief.
She was a wonderful woman who self-taught.
I have always been interested in
I recently read many mediums of art. It took
that some connecting with Ann Crouch to
people think fulfill my love for art education
having a child is and the wonderful fellowship with
the most painful other artists that continues to this
thing you can day. For more than 60 years, Ann
go through. Not Crouch was a major force in the
true. The most world of art in Amarillo. When I
painful thing met her, she had already opened
I have ever the Galleries at Sunset Center,
gone through which was a big hit with area
is burying my artists. Little did I know that I had
son. Nine and found a mentor, a teacher, and a
a half years ago, friend.
our son Brian
died from brain
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