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You know those movies where they show the funeral in the lonely west, with the icy wind whipping the few mourners - weathered cowboys and a few women bundled up against the cold and there isn't anything in sight for hundreds of miles in every direction? Well, a-yup-that was Dad's burial in Woodruff, Arizona.
Woodruff is a tiny blip in the highway going to the thriving metropolis of Holbrook, Arizona and not far from Snowflake.
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The ride up from Mesa took us through the beautiful Mogollon (say Muggy-on) Rim country that Zane Grey wrote about, after early December winter storms.
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The road up to Woodruff, Arizona is a beautiful, but lonely one once you get past the forest country. Then it's open wilderness - high desert.
I'm glad this year will be a happier Christmas celebration.
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