JohnA: Farewell To Rose Mary

Joe and Rosemary Peak were featured in the Shoshone News Press in 2008 for 30 years in operation at the Enaville Resort. Health issues caused the Peaks to close the Snake Pit earlier this month. Cancer claimed Rose Mary Friday.(SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

JohnA: Our thoughts and prayers are with Joe and his family tonight. There are very few ‘sainted’ women in the world. Rose Mary was truly one of them. She and Joe provided the world with three great kids, one of whom has blessed us as a Catholic priest. She helped Joe to maintain the tradition that was the Snake Pit, but more importantly made it a place for families, and that was something no one thought could happen to the venerable old joint. In the thirty years I knew her, I never heard her say one negative thing, not about anyone or anything. She remains to me the very essence of what it means to be a true servant of the Lord. I know she’s in a better place tonight, and the suffering has finally ended, but somehow that doesn’t replace the sadness that I feel.

Question: Do you know someone of whom you can say: S/he never says an unkind word?