Lives Starting Out and Finishing Up… At neither occasion is humor expected, but when it’s an added bonus, the comments eliciting laughter are the ones most remembered. Current examples were separated by some 50 miles and 74 years. Both were in churches--at a memorial service in Farmers Branch and at a parent-child dedication in Burleson…. ***** There were many smiles--and some outright belly laughs--at the memorial service for Louis Stone, 78.