The Sun shines on Clellie

The DeSoto Sun printed this about my favorite older sister on June 30, 2011. Of course, she is my only older sister...

  "Clel Shore: Inspirational artist      Someone as involved in the community as Clel Shore certainly doesn’t let a couple of oxygen tanks slow her down. Maneuvering her tanks like a scuba diver exploring the oceans’ coral reefs, Clel searches for new ways to help the community, to express herself creatively and to learn. She is a genuine inspiration.   The judge told me he was in a class all by himself.' She is currently writing a book about a house they owned.

   "I met Clel when she joined The Writers Group, and she started out by reading a personal essay on the spreading of her late husband Jack’s ashes, which was both touching and hilariously funny. She read another piece just as entertaining about when she entered Jack in the fair.

   “'You were supposed to put in the best thing you had. He won a ribbon.

   "I learned Clel was an oil painter when she was DeSoto Arts and Humanities’ Artist of the Month. Her life with Jack is expressed in many of her paintings."

Wasn't there a 4th of July parade, when Jack entered Clellie in the parade in Arcadia? That was back in the days of "Big C", when Clellie used to chat with everyone on the CB radio. As I heard the story (I never saw a picture), Clellie stood on a two-wheeled hand cart with her CB radio and antenna, to which Jack had fastened a battery, and Jack pushed Clellie in the parade. Anyone remember that?
I heard she even ordered a burger from Steak 'n Shake one night, when a trucker was passing through on his way to Sarasota and would be coming back.

Yummy... Steak 'n Shake... might just have to make a trip there today, after the rain stops.