A columnist reflects on childhood memories, baseball, family and faith after rediscovering the baseball glove his father gave him more than 60 years ago.
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Tom Foley
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A memorial for Tom Foley, former speaker of the House will be held at 11 a.m. Nov. 1 at St. Aloysius Church, 330 E. Boone Ave.
Foley, a Spokane native who served 30 years in the House and also served as U.S. ambassador to Japan, died Oct. 18 in Washington, D.C., of complications of a stroke.
Another memorial service for Foley will be held next week at the U.S. Capitol.
What are favorite memories of Foley? Leave a comment below.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
