A Day filled with Love, Laughter, Tears, and Inspiration

I need to remember and do my photos opposite of how they are downloaded as it puts last to first! So I will begin with the last photo. Josie Greathouse Fox...her final resting place. She had 100 floral arrangements. Obviously, not all of them are in the photo. I loved the hat at the foot of the grave side. It had daisies on it. So fitting. She was loved by many and was an inspiration to many.

The flags lined up at the Delta Cemetery.
They were also lined up running east
and west. A beautiful sight.

This was the flag that was flown
at ground zero. It was impressive
to say the least.

I got up this morning and put our flag out in honor of Josie.

When we returned to school last Tuesday it was,unfortunately to be greeted with the sad news of Josies death. She had been shot early that morning. She has come to the school in the past and my memory of her was that she was always smiling. Always happy and seemed to love life and love what she was doing. A delightful lady to be around. Very well loved in the community and very inspiring to the troubled youth of Delta. Today they said her service contained laughter and tears. I loved what her mother had to say in the Tribune so I am attaching it.

"But for a time, Greathouse recalled, her second-oldest child "spent some time learning the other side." She skipped class at Delta High School. She experimented with marijuana and methamphetamine. And her choices had consequences: She became pregnant with her first child as a teenager. It was Josie's dedication to her son, Spencer, that helped her turn her life around. About 12 years ago she took a welding job in Salt Lake City, balancing work with raising her children, including her daughter, Hunter, who was born five years after Spencer. But her heart remained in law enforcement, her mother said, and she returned to the Delta area to join the Millard County Sheriff's Office, going through Peace Officer Standards and Training in early 2005.
"She got all of that out of her system all by herself," Greathouse said. "When she made her mind up to do something, she got it done. It's one of the things I was proudest of her for."
It also made her a great police officer. So many people have told me Josie helped their kids get out of the drug scene and overcome depression," Greathouse said. Roberto Miramontes Roman was just the kind of person that Josie was likely to help. She never got the chance. She also had many friends in the Latino community and would be "heartbroken" at some of the comments Greathouse has heard in her community since the shooting.
What wonderful comments by a mother grieving the loss of her daughter. I am assuming you all know how she died, but perhaps I should not assume that. She had pulled over Roberto Roman for a drug bust. He shot and killed her. One hour before he had sold drugs to her brother. So many victims in this senseless crime.