Enter Cleo Harris, After Henrietta lost Junie to Cancer my Father Cleo Harris lost his wife Mary Helen Coble Harris six months later with the same dreaded disease cancer. Little did either know that within three years they would be madly in love and married.

One after noon Henrietta happened to be in her office and a man walked by and she asked one of her staff
"Who is that Man" and the answer was well that's Mr.. Harris. As Henrietta tells the story now she says she fell madly in love the moment she laid eyes on Cleo. My Brother Brian was only six years old at the time and was enrolled in Hester's Creative Schools for Children.  Hence when her children asked " Will He Like the :Lake? little did they know how prophetic that statement was to be.

The lake house was a wonderful cottage built in the 1950's and during the seventies my Father, Cleo redesigned and rebuilt the lake house as it stands today,  a testament to his abilities, talents and his legacy as far as far as the lake house goes. It is named Almost Farm. Dad could read and write blueprints in his head so he totally redesigned the lake house and personally rebuilt it to its present form which is wonderful and Henrietta loves the home. Now all her grandchildren and she enjoy the lake and beach house each summer for at least six weeks.

Cleo was reared during the Great Depression, came from a large but broken family, Fought in infantry BAE man wounded at Anzio Beach Italy, lived 18 years after Doctors told him he had six months to live after removing cancerous lung, had five hip replacements and never, no not never ever complained about a thing. He was a hell of a mans man.

Then he married Henrietta and had a marvelous second chance at life and lived happily ever after with her for 27 wonderful years. He gave me what I had always wanted, a big loving family. My new blended family became more than the word blended. It became a FAMILY with five children, 3 Brothers and 2 Sisters and a second Mother that became my Mother as well. How lucky can a man be, just ask me.