Until a week or so ago, I hadn't been on this board in years, and I noticed this thread and read it through.
It brings back a lot of fond memories, as I used to shoot with AnnieLee back in Pungo. Many here will know of what I speak. AnnieLee always greeted me with a hug, since we first became friends, and she was the first person in my life to do anything like that, short of my wife. My wife (Beth of Lincoln County) and I always looked forward to seeing her each month, and whenever we could talk her into it, she would come to our place for dinner or we would all go somewhere for dinner after the shoot. We even managed to get up to her place for a weekend one time, the summer before she got sick.
My mother died the November before AnnieLee found out she was sick, the first weekend of November. AnnieLee called after the match in Pungo (held the first weekend each month) to see what was up, as we had missed the match. We were at the funeral home, working out "the details". AnnieLee insisted to come right over, no matter what, and she stayed with us 'till well into the night, even though she had a long drive home yet, after a long day. She had met my parents on a couple of occaisions before.
I remember at Roundup, with four or five of us sitting around a table at the hotel out by the pool after the banquet, BSing and having a good time for half the night. She was just so much fun to be around.
I haven't shot much CAS since then, as my parents were our babysitters for us to shoot. Now I work most of the time and don't get to shoot hardly at all.
The world is a lesser place without her, but her new home is a brighter place for her being there.