Richard Alvin Cross

IN  LOVING  MEMORY  OF

Richard Alvin Cross

July 27, 1928 — December 31, 2019

GRAVESIDE  SERVICE

Friday, January 10, 2020 at 12:00 noon

Mountain View Cemetery

1411 W. Belmont, Fresno, California

CELEBRATION  OF  LIFE

Friday, January 10, 2020 at 1:30 p.m.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

5025 W. Ashlan, Fresno, California

RELATIVES

Wife:  Eva Cross

Wife:  Lenore Cross (deceased)

Daughter:  Linda Lenore Cross (deceased)

Son:  R. Douglas Cross

Daughter:  Susan Wilson

Daughter:  Rebecca Cooley

Son:  Robert Cross (deceased)

Son:  Gary Hixon (deceased)

Daughter:  Vickie K. Pyle

Grandchildren:  22

Great Grandchildren:  44

Sister:  Gladys Sanders (deceased)

Sister:  Ruth Cooper (deceased)

Sister:  Marcelle Elizabeth Rucker

Brother:  Fred Harrison Cross (deceased)

Brother:  William Thomas Cross (deceased)

Brother:  Danny Paul Cross (deceased)

O  MY  FATHER

by Eliza R. Snow

O my Father, thou that dwellest

In the high and glorious place,

When shall I regain thy presence

And again behold thy face?

In thy holy habitation,

Did my spirit once reside?

In my first primeval childhood,

Was I nurtured near thy side?

For a wise and glorious purpose

Thou has placed me here on earth

And withheld the recollection

Of my former friends and birth;

Yet oft times a secret something

Whispered, “You’re a stranger here,”

And I felt that I had wandered

From a more exalted sphere.

I had learned to call thee Father,

Thru thy Spirit from on high,

But, until the key of knowledge

Was restored, I knew not why.

In the heav’ns are parents single?

No, the thought makes reason stare!

Truth is reason; truth eternal

Tells me I’ve a mother there.

When I leave this frail existence,

When I lay this mortal by,

Father, Mother, may I meet you

In your royal courts on high?

Then, at length, when I’ve completed

All you sent me forth to do,

With your mutual approbation

Let me come and dwell with you.

“May God touch you

with His healing hand

and give you the peace and comfort

you need to get through.”

Anon.

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