To My Dear Sweet Grandma

Dear, sweet Grandma,

We laid you to rest today.  The pastor did a fine job but like he said everyone has different memories of you but if I would have given your eulogy it would have went a little something like this.

I think you look lovely in your pink suit.  My friend, Jennifer said that you have good hair but I would like to think that you heard us talking about you so you already know that.  I remember when I was little you would put those weird, wiry rollers in your hair held in place with little, pink picks and then you would sit at your kitchen table drinking coffee and puffing on your Merits but not inhaling.  After you pulled those rollers out you would put that pink stuff on your cheeks and lips.

I remember you always had violets growing in the "flower window" and you would put milk in them.  I think they were violets but I am positive it was milk. 

I remember always jumping off your porch instead of using the steps and you would say, "You are going to break your neck".  When Alex was little he would jump off the same way I had many years before and you would say the same to him and tell me that I used to do the same thing and it scared you to death.

I remember that you never ran the sweeper or did the "worsh" on Sunday and there was a reason for that.

I remember you loved the Price is Right and your stories.  In my 20's when I watched them too we would talk about which Lewis boy Reva was married to now.

I remember when Dani was a toddler and we started calling you Grammaw Great and it just kinda stuck.


"Grandma's salad" will be your legacy.

I remember that you wore the beaded bracelet that I had gotten you for Christmas the year before and it made me happy to know that you must have really liked it.

I remembered that you always had Hellman's in your refrigerator and I think that is the reason you can always find a jar in mine.

Grammaw Great, you will forever be in my heart and memories.  Sleep with the angels.