Mary "Martha" Alvina Houchen

I'd like the memory of me

to be a happy one,

and leave an afterglow of smiles,

when life on earth is done.

I'd like to leave an echo

whispering softly down the ways,

Of happy times and

laughing times and

bright and sunny days.

I'd like the tears of

those who grieve,

to dry before the sun

of happy memories that I leave

when life on earth is done.