The Singing Room

We had a room off our living room that we called the music room. In that special room was a pump organ which mother had played in the Smithfield Church of the Brethren when she was young. I often wondered who purchased that organ when mom and dad had a sale before they moved to Harrisburg. I was in Arizona at my Brethren Volunteer Service project.

Mother played the most beautiful pieces on the organ and our piano. Dad loved to sing while she played. It was to be that in their later years when they were in the home at Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, they led a sing along for the Alzheimerâ...