To everything there is a season, A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to cast away stones, A time to get, and a time to lose; A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to love, and a time to hate; Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ~ ~ ~ Tell Them Now If with pleasure you are viewingAny work a person is doing, If you like them or you love them tell them now. Don't withhold your approbation Till the parson makes oration And they lie with snowy lilies on their brow, For no matter how you shout it They won't really care about it They won't know how many teardrops you have shed So if some praise is due them Now's the time to slip it to them For they cannot read their tombstone when they’re dead. More than fame and more than money Is the comment kind and sunny And the hearty warm approval of a friend, For it gives to life a savor And it makes you stronger, braver, And it gives you heart and courage to the end.
If you like them, let them know it Let the words of true encouragement be said. Do not wait till life is over And they’re underneath the clover, For they cannot read their tombstone when they’re dead. (Author unknown) Eulogy for Pearl Martin Cash Ziock Foree Written By: Esther M. Ziock Carroll Pearl Maethel Martin Cash Ziock Foree of Cadet passed away at Potosi Manor at 1:45 a.m. on 13 December 2007. She was born 25 December 1926 in Irondale, Washington County, Missouri & was the third child of Berdie Mae Henderson & Guy Thomas Martin. She was preceeded in death by: her parents; three grandchildren; her first husband, Sgt. Cecil J. Cash, KIA WWII; her second husband of 31 years, August Theodore Ziock; her third husband of 10 years Rudy Foree; two brothers Arthur & William Martin; her grand parents Margie Dicus & James Martin & Mattie Briley & James Henderson. She is survived by her only child, Esther Mae Ziock Carroll & son-in-law Gene Carroll of Potosi; four brothers: James Martin of Bonne Terre, Missouri; Carl Martin Clayton of Granite City, Illinois; & Robert & Melvin Martin of Mineral Point, Missouri. Four sisters: (all from Missouri) Glenda Spradling of Festus, Cora Zimmermann of Rolla, Dorothy Blevins & Gladys Young of Marble Hill. She also leaves many neices, nephews, grand neices & nephews, neighbors & friends. Pearl was a very strong & independent woman. As a child she walked more than a mile to school. She loved to read & at night would take a flashlight to bed with her & hide under the covers to read her books. As an adult she belonged to the Double Day Book Club for many, many years. Pearl left home at approximately age 15 & went to St. Louis. There she worked at the Small Arms Plant during WWII & later for the Woolworth Dime Store. She met her first husband, Cecil Cash & they were married in El Paso, Texas after he joined the army . After Sgt. Cash was Killed In Action in WWII she married her 2nd husband, August "Gus" Theodore Ziock, & they resided in Chesterfield, St. Louis County, approx. 26 years. In the early years of their marriage they rode a motorcycle & were members of the American Motorcycle Association. After Guses death in 1976 she moved back to Washington County in 1980. She married her 3rd husband, Rudy Foree, in 1986. She loved gardening & would put out a vegetable garden every year. She always prided herself on her early lettuce that always came up before everyone else’s lettuce. She also had a lot of shrubbery & flowers in her yard with roses being her favorite. She liked to fish & one time even tried her hand at hunting. She was very excited when she got two ducks with one shot! She also loved to dance & her husband, Rudy, took her dancing often. She also traveled extensively in the United States (including Hawaii) & Mexico. She & Gus & daughter Esther frequented Acapulco always visiting the tropical city during the Christmas Holidays. One time Pearl & Gus drove their camper all the way to the Yucatan Peninsula to visit the archealogical site of Chichen Itza. Pearl also paid a visit to Canada during her lifetime. Pearl had always been fairly healthy during her lifetime & was rarely ever ill. The only major health problems she had was when her daughter’s horse, Red Cloud, accidently stepped on her foot & fractured it. Another time Pearl fell & fractured her tail bone & one time in the 1980's one of her cows knocked her down & she suffered a broken leg. In 2006 she went blind in one eye from Macular Degenerative Eye Disease. When she became ill in early 2007 with lymphoma she didn’t even have a regular family doctor as she had never needed one. This cancer rapidly took it’s toll. This was the first year that she wasn’t able to plant a garden or do many of the other things she enjoyed. She did, however, take comfort in still feeding her wild birds & of course squirrels & other animals would come around to eat the seed as well. She did take a lot of pleasure in watching her groundhog "Hoagy" who was a daily visitor. She even bought him gourmet bird seed & would sometimes fix him scrambled eggs for breakfast. Hoagy went into hybernation about mid-November & now rests peacefully as does Pearl. He will awaken to sunshine & beautiful spring flowers as will Pearl when she is in heaven.
Immediately after the eulogy the song "Dream" was played."Dream" is composed/played by Manuel Gottsching husband of Ilona Ziok
Visitation & Funeral services were held at Britton's in Potosi
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