Granny

My Granny passed away in her sleep on Sunday night, I guess her official date of death is Jan 16th. My Daddy passed away on Jan 15, 2000. What is it with my family and dying in January? It's too cold for a funeral in Indiana. No one else is allowed to die in January. I still don't believe she is gone. Maybe the reality of it will hit me when I see her at the funeral home.

Granny was 89-years-old! She would have been 90 on April 27th. She lived her whole life in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. She had 2 kids, my Mom is the oldest, and my Uncle Ronnie is the youngest. Granny was a pain in the rear to Mom, she was never outwardly accepting to Mom to her face, however, she was to me and my sisters. We knew that she worshipped the ground Mom walked on.

I got to know Granny very well when I was raising my kids. I lived in Connersville a few miles from Granny while Mom lived in Arizona with my youngest sister, my oldest sister was in the Army and lived in Germany. I called her almost every day and we'd talk and talk. When I was 17 years-old and pregnant with my oldest son David, it was Granny who took me to her beloved yard sales to buy things for the baby. She paid for a lot of what we bought that day. I will never forget it. She was from the old-school and had old-school ways but she put it aside and took me around and got what I needed for my baby.

I have a picture of her tiny little self dancing with my 6'4" tall son at his wedding. She is straining her neck to look up at him. I also have a picture of him as a baby with his blonde curls! She has been here a long, long time! I can't believe she is not here anymore.