Chaplain's Corner
Dear Fellow Members 44th Engineer Battalion Association;
Greetings!
Hopefully this message finds you all in the best of health doing this beautiful winter days. We are in the heart of the winter and the Ground Hog say we have more to come. The weather here in Virginia is cold one day and the next day it’s hot. Hope everyone has taken your flu shots.
What a beautiful winter scene this is, with the sun shining on the pure white snow.
Most children like winter, when the snow flies around them, touching their faces, and falling on their clothes, and they love to make snowballs. The parks look beautiful with all the dark trees and bushes surrounded by the white snow.
Is there anything whiter than snow?
Yes, a sinner who is washed in the priors’ blood of the Lord Jesus Christ is whiter than snow.
Are you washed, dear reader, in the blood of Jesus? Just come to Him, and accept Him as your dear Saviour, who loves you so much, as to die for you on the cross, and bore the judgment you derived for your sins.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool..” Isa. 1:18.
I would like to share that I did have the opportunity to go on the Honor Flight to Washington, DC on the 18th of October 2024. It was a great experience to be with veterans from all the branches of services. We were treated with the up most respect and lots of pictures were taken and I received a picture album that I will share at the next reunion. God’s will.
John 5:24-25
“Very truly I tell you; whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life”
Bishop DR. Johnny L. Hicks
Chaplain
44th Engineer Battalion Association
Obituaries
April 30th, 1934 - December 1st, 2024
Gerald Brody, age 90, of Jackson, New Jersey passed away on Sunday, December 1st.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, he resided for many years there and in Valley Stream on Long Island before moving to Jackson 19 years ago. As he used to say, “I left my heart in Brooklyn, the rest of me ended up in New Jersey.” He also spent many summers at a lakehouse near Millerton in Dutchess County, NY where he enjoyed many a relaxing day in the country.
Gerald was an army veteran and also worked in the New York State Department of Labor for over thirty years. He managed to be retired for longer than he worked. He loved to play paddleball and pickleball, tell jokes, read, do crossword puzzles, listen to old-time country music, and hunt for great bargains. He was a big fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers and eventually became a big Mets and Jets fan too.
Gerald is survived by his wife of 44 years Claire, his son Stephen, his daughter Melisa and her husband Ronald Moses, his son Daniel and his wife Yadira Rodriguez; and his grandchildren Alexander, Julie, and Jackie Moses, Oliver Brody, and Rheya and Thiago Brody Rodriguez.