{"id":63157,"date":"2015-08-04T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63157"},"modified":"2015-08-03T21:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T01:04:52","slug":"donna-tanney-finis-but-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63157","title":{"rendered":"Donna Tanney: Finis But Not Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Musings of A Simple Country Man<\/p>\n

\"Hobie<\/a>
Hobie Morris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Hobie Morris<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Brookfield, NY \u2013 Aug. 2015) A remarkable Brookfield woman, known widely in this central New York area for her extensive literary accomplishments as well as her culinary expertise, recently passed away and was interred in the quaint and historic Brookfield Rural Cemetery.\u00a0 From her eternal resting place a stone could be thrown to where her childhood home once stood.\u00a0 A majestic old church bell rings in the steeple of the pre-Civil War Baptist Church, where she worshipped throughout her life.\u00a0 The church steeple can also be seen from her resting spot.\u00a0 The location\u2019s ambience is serene and beautiful.\u00a0 The surrounding forest covered hills are deeply verdant in all shades of iridescent greens.\u00a0 Donna Tanney is home.\u00a0\u00a0 She loved this rural community with all her being.\u00a0 A lifelong love affair that she captured in her many beautiful writings that she recaptured in all the writing mediums and even her primitive but meaningful art work.<\/p>\n

For many years Donna and her husband Charlie lived the life of the past in their l9th century homestead on the Gates Hill that overlooks the Beaver Valley deeply below.\u00a0 Charlie drove award winning Percheron draft horses on a sleigh in winter and stagecoach in summer through the Brookfield area.\u00a0 Donna then served home cooked dinners that were very popular, bringing in people from many states.\u00a0 Donna and Charlie recreated a lifestyle that was extremely unique and very exciting for those unfamiliar with the way people lived a century and a half ago.<\/p>\n

There are many chapters in Donna Tanney\u2019s book, both the ones she so beautifully wrote and her personal life story.\u00a0 Her writings will continue to be enjoyed and will enrich future generations.\u00a0 She was a gifted writer with a special talent to capture in dialogue\u00a0 the characters and plot of a time long ago in the Brookfield community.\u00a0 History fascinated Donna.\u00a0 Her roots grew deep in the rocks of the often unforgiving soil of this remote rural community.\u00a0 Her grandfather in fact began the first newspaper in Brookfield in the mid-1870\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Donna was a mother lode of historical information that she gladly shared in many different ways.\u00a0 Genealogists were always requesting information from her.\u00a0\u00a0 She was always working on new history projects, right up until the end.<\/p>\n

Donna was an indefatigable worker in many other ways.\u00a0 For instance, she built a massive field stone fireplace and chimney, doing the whole process from finding the stones in old walls and cellars to carrying them to the truck or wagon and eventually cementing them all together.\u00a0 It was an amazing labor of love.<\/p>\n

We also greatly admired her tremendous determination and love for others.\u00a0 Despite many personal bumps in her long life she somehow persevered and kept on keeping on.\u00a0 Nothing short of death was she incapable of surmounting.\u00a0 When she had a near fatal aneurysm at age 56, she miraculously survived.\u00a0 Ironically, her mother died of the same affliction at that same age.\u00a0 Donna would survive and live a very exciting and eventful life for another 35 years.<\/p>\n

My lovely wife Lois and I valued our 45 year friendship with Donna Tanney and her husband Charlie.\u00a0 Today they are united in the location they never wanted to leave.\u00a0 Donna\u2019s last chapter here on earth has indeed been written, but her many writings will ripple away through the generations to follow.\u00a0 Her new chapter will be composed in her heavenly home.<\/p>\n

Hobie Morris is a Brookfield resident and simple country man.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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