Heap o' Links Thanksgiving, 2025
😆 Stilton's Place
🌅 Day by Day —comic (NSFW)
👫 Arlo & Janis
🐰 Kevin & Kell
🧩 Barnhardt Meme Barrage
🧩 Bits & Pieces —always memes
5️⃣ 5 Mind —memes
The female National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, has died.
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At the age of 7, Mother Viola survived one of the darkest moments in American history—the Tulsa Race Massacre. As the oldest living survivor, she carried not only her memories but, also the collective memory of a tragedy that shaped her life and the lives of countless others. Although she was never able to continue her formal education, her determination and spirit led her to work diligently as a maid while raising her family and forging her own legacy.
Her greatest joy in life was her family—her beloved three children: daughter Debra Crumpton, son James Edward Ford, and son Ronald Fletcher. She cherished her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren deeply, finding comfort and purpose in their love.
Mother Viola’s legacy extends far beyond her family. Among her many accomplishments, she addressed Congress in 2021, ensuring the stories of Tulsa would never be forgotten. In 2023, she authored her memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words,” inspiring readers with her courage and truth. As an author, speaker, supercentenarian, and the oldest known living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, she became a symbol of endurance, justice, and unbreakable spirit.
She is preceded in death by her parents, John Wesley Ford and Lucinda Ellis, her daughter Debra Crumpton, her son James Edward Ford, all her siblings, her baby brother, and most recently her brother, Hughes Van “Redd” Ellis—lovingly known as Uncle Redd.
She is survived by her son Ronald Fletcher; her grandchildren Ike, Tracy, Felix, Freddie, Reggie, Roselyn, and Mona; along with a host of other grandchildren and great-grandchildren who will continue to carry her story forward.
Mother Viola will be dearly missed, and her legacy and strength will live on for generations to come.
A Quote by Mother Viola:
“It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.” — Mother Viola Ford Fletcher
May her memory be a blessing and her story forever remembered.
Visitation will be Friday, Nov. 28 from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Stumpff Funeral Home in Bartlesville. A memorial service will be held at noon on Saturday, Nov. 29 at the Bartlesville Community Center. Interment will follow at White Rose Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Stumpff Funeral Home.
Social Justice Over The Years +More
It lands on the plate in a perfect, ridged cylinder, quivering with the faint structural integrity of a haunted Jell-O mold. The surface gleams under the kitchen light with an unnatural, almost radioactive sheen (think "nuclear maraschino cherry" meets "gas station sushi"). Tiny air bubbles are suspended inside like trapped souls trying to escape. When you slice into it, the knife makes a sound best described as a sad trombone being slowly drowned in simple syrup.
The texture? Imagine if cranberry bog water had a midlife crisis, gave up, and decided to become a fruit-flavored rubber tire. It wobbles. It jiggles. It refuses to break apart like normal food, instead choosing to ooze in slow-motion defiance, leaving behind a glossy, sticky crime scene that clings to your fork like it’s personally offended you tried to eat it.
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