<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of People Magazine at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20728828,00.html">http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20728828,00.html</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div><h1 id="articleHeadline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); line-height: 32px; font-size: 32px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-position: 0px 50%; ">Fred Stobaugh, 96, Writes Heartbreaking Love Song for His Late Wife of 73 Years</h1></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After his wife of 73 years died in April, Fred Stobaugh was heartbroken. But the Peoria, Ill., widower was still able to speak to her – in song. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; ">Stobaugh, 96, who freely admits he has no musical experience and can't really sing, honored his wife Lorraine by writing her a love song and sending the handwritten lyrics to a local studio's singer-songwriter contest. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; ">They loved it so much, they produced it as a single – and made a short documentary about it, which is now going viral. Watch it above. <br></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; ">"Oh sweet Lorraine, I wish we could do all the good times over again," the bittersweet song begins. "Oh sweet Lorraine, life only goes around once but never again." <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; ">Fred and Lorraine met in Peoria in 1938, dated for two years, got married and had three children and four grandchildren. "She was just the prettiest girl I ever saw. Real timid, like. I just fell in love with her right there," Stobaugh says in the documentary. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; ">"After she passed away, I was just sitting in the front room one evening by myself, and it just came right to me," he says of writing the song. "I just kept humming it and singing it ... It just fit her." <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; ">"I really, really miss her," he adds. "It just don't seem right [that she's gone]. Like a dream." <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; ">Upon hearing that Green Shoe Studio would produce the song for free, Fred broke down and cried. He wept again when he heard the finished tune. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Documentary Video</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDi4hBWsvkY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDi4hBWsvkY</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div><img src="cid:E51772D1-A065-4E61-8AB1-A20E7981F60A" alt="image.jpeg" id="E51772D1-A065-4E61-8AB1-A20E7981F60A" width="628" height="358"></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div>"Sweet Lorraine"</div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJzzNMv9Oo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJzzNMv9Oo</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:10BCAAE0-0BCA-442C-976D-BD442772C7F3" alt="image.jpeg" id="10BCAAE0-0BCA-442C-976D-BD442772C7F3" width="600" height="338"></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>