Cord Byrd: “next Monday, the Lord willing, my wife and I will celebrate our 63rd wedding anniversary. I have to frankly say that…”

“next Monday, the Lord willing, my wife and I will celebrate our 63rd wedding anniversary. I have to frankly say that what little I have amounted to, if it is anything much, I owe for the most part to her. She saw to it that I earned a law degree. She virtually put me through law school by her caring ways. She fulfilled the responsibilities at home, rearing our children while I was busy. She went to the store, she did the buying, she did the washing, she did the ironing, she pressed my clothes. She mopped the floors, she vacuumed the carpets, she did the work. I have never seen a person who was a harder worker than my wife and the woman who raised me, my old foster mother, my aunt. But Erma is the one to whom credit is due. She has set the kind of example for me over the years that I have not been able to emulate fully. This coming Monday, I am going to show her my appreciation by going back to the hills with her. On Monday, we will finish reading the King James version of the Holy Bible together. We are down to where we lack four chapters.”