Somewhere down in Kentucky, in a smallish cozy house that has a shed where grown vegetables and stuff are stored, and an out house that isn't used anymore, but is very pretty, in fact, the prettiest bathroom I have ever seen, with carpeting or rugs, (it's been a while) and even a framed picture in it, there lived a wonderfully sweet 96 year old lady, Charlotte. Her daughter Frieda lived with her back a while ago, but a few months ago she had died. Within the last few years, another daughter and a son of Charlotte, whom we call Aunt Lotty, died. The first funeral I have been to was her son's, Kenniths, and there was the rifles, flag and everything, and also the worst greiving sound in the world, I'll never forget how poor Aunt Lotty sounded, or when her daughter Frieda died, see, she was so old, but she was so,.... I don't know, she was pretty healthy, despute the old age creeping up on her, making her lose alot of her sight and hearing.
I will never froget when we went to Ky to see her, my mom somehow just remembered how to get to her house, with no directions and she hasn't been there in years, she had a bed in the living room, it was pure country there, she was going to have us stay for dinner, which from what I heard ends up being a feast larger then the Thanksgiving meal, and I held her hand on a chair, saw the knick knacks all over, sand to her, like I do to my own Grandma a lot, Grandma has taught both me and teri a lot of old pretty songs, like, will the circle be unbroken? and farther along, and a bunch of others that we sang at this piano bar at a rest. we always went to, all of the drunk people and the sober always turned to see these two little cute twin girls sing stuff, like that one, when the moon hit's the eye like a bifg pizza pie, that's amore,.... and you are my sunshine, et cetera. These are what made a lot of nights special, and when even younger and Grandma lived with us, her and I sat on this swing on our back porch and sang songs together, mosly sunday school songs. She never cared about how bad of a singer I am, I sound terrible yet I'm not very offkey, from chorus for so many years, i guess.
Anyway, My uncle Sherman called tonight, he's my Grandma';s son and my mom's brother, and he asked for mom's work number, I gave it to him after he said no to is anything wrong and then later on mom came in the door home from work and said she needed to talk to me. My first thoughts were I was in trouble, and then she told me, Aunt Lotty died tonight, I started crying, shaking, and then ran dowstairs and got some things, I came back up with this necklace she gave me, I never thought I'd really wear it, and it's really long but now I want it to stay on me, and an angel figurine, or knick knack with a note taped to it that frieda had written for her that day when they came to Ohio to visit us family, it say's, to mary a keepsake to rememer me by, love "auntie Charlotte" we never called her that, to me, it was always aunt lotty.
This is how the weekend was going to be for me, Tomorrow, Friday I was going to school, take the last two exams, then leave for our early release at 11-30, do whatever until work 4-7, and then sat work 8-4 and around 7"30 p.m. we were planning on going to this hockey game, my older sister already had these tickets, and sunday was work 10-2 and then dads. Now what I have to do jis call someone tomorow, tell them I may be able to come in for a little while at least, call off for sat and sunday, and then tomorrow night we were going to leave for Ky and stay there tilll sun, the layout is saturday and the funeral is sunday, I already told dad we wouldn;t see him, and I thought about something we learned in rotc once, about how at funerals, in unifoprm, you stand at attention and salute the flag, and I asked then, too if we could if we had a funeral we had to go to, I'll ask again tomorrow, if anything I'll wera it anyway,... See, I have to keep thinking, or I'll start cryoing again. She hated how some of her kids left the world first, and now she is gone, and my Grandma, well, she was in bed and her and myuncle live together, and he hasn't woken her up to tell her yet, because we have to be really careful with her, when she hears the bad news tomorrow she'll probably end up giving herself a heart attack :( The last time we were in the car for a funeral, mom and Dellres, my older sister were fighting, delores screaming and threatening to jump out of the car, Grandma yelling and crying saying he hates everyone, me squished in the door practially, it is haed on everyone. My main job will be to try and just not do anything to make matters worse, and I already know that Grandma willwant me to back up a little, to let her grieve. I'm glad that mom and my unclke decided to let her sleep, I don't know what it''ll be like when I come in from school. I'm going to stink on these exams, they arehard enough, math and science, I'm not feeling good. I was actually ready to sleep, laying down readinga little when mom came in and since then I've gotten this stuff lotty gave me, she's my Grandma, mom's mom great aunt, and cruied, talked to my dad on phone, tried to call work to get off and also ate at leats 5 bowls of cereal that I',m not going to bother with purging right now.I have to go for now, I probably won't be on the computer at all for a few days, but take care and please pray for the family in general, they get scary, another aunt Jackie, she dies and the ambulance came to the layout to get my uncle Paul, he had a heart attck there, which is what she had died from/ help us to be strong for the next few weeks :(
I will never froget when we went to Ky to see her, my mom somehow just remembered how to get to her house, with no directions and she hasn't been there in years, she had a bed in the living room, it was pure country there, she was going to have us stay for dinner, which from what I heard ends up being a feast larger then the Thanksgiving meal, and I held her hand on a chair, saw the knick knacks all over, sand to her, like I do to my own Grandma a lot, Grandma has taught both me and teri a lot of old pretty songs, like, will the circle be unbroken? and farther along, and a bunch of others that we sang at this piano bar at a rest. we always went to, all of the drunk people and the sober always turned to see these two little cute twin girls sing stuff, like that one, when the moon hit's the eye like a bifg pizza pie, that's amore,.... and you are my sunshine, et cetera. These are what made a lot of nights special, and when even younger and Grandma lived with us, her and I sat on this swing on our back porch and sang songs together, mosly sunday school songs. She never cared about how bad of a singer I am, I sound terrible yet I'm not very offkey, from chorus for so many years, i guess.
Anyway, My uncle Sherman called tonight, he's my Grandma';s son and my mom's brother, and he asked for mom's work number, I gave it to him after he said no to is anything wrong and then later on mom came in the door home from work and said she needed to talk to me. My first thoughts were I was in trouble, and then she told me, Aunt Lotty died tonight, I started crying, shaking, and then ran dowstairs and got some things, I came back up with this necklace she gave me, I never thought I'd really wear it, and it's really long but now I want it to stay on me, and an angel figurine, or knick knack with a note taped to it that frieda had written for her that day when they came to Ohio to visit us family, it say's, to mary a keepsake to rememer me by, love "auntie Charlotte" we never called her that, to me, it was always aunt lotty.
This is how the weekend was going to be for me, Tomorrow, Friday I was going to school, take the last two exams, then leave for our early release at 11-30, do whatever until work 4-7, and then sat work 8-4 and around 7"30 p.m. we were planning on going to this hockey game, my older sister already had these tickets, and sunday was work 10-2 and then dads. Now what I have to do jis call someone tomorow, tell them I may be able to come in for a little while at least, call off for sat and sunday, and then tomorrow night we were going to leave for Ky and stay there tilll sun, the layout is saturday and the funeral is sunday, I already told dad we wouldn;t see him, and I thought about something we learned in rotc once, about how at funerals, in unifoprm, you stand at attention and salute the flag, and I asked then, too if we could if we had a funeral we had to go to, I'll ask again tomorrow, if anything I'll wera it anyway,... See, I have to keep thinking, or I'll start cryoing again. She hated how some of her kids left the world first, and now she is gone, and my Grandma, well, she was in bed and her and myuncle live together, and he hasn't woken her up to tell her yet, because we have to be really careful with her, when she hears the bad news tomorrow she'll probably end up giving herself a heart attack :( The last time we were in the car for a funeral, mom and Dellres, my older sister were fighting, delores screaming and threatening to jump out of the car, Grandma yelling and crying saying he hates everyone, me squished in the door practially, it is haed on everyone. My main job will be to try and just not do anything to make matters worse, and I already know that Grandma willwant me to back up a little, to let her grieve. I'm glad that mom and my unclke decided to let her sleep, I don't know what it''ll be like when I come in from school. I'm going to stink on these exams, they arehard enough, math and science, I'm not feeling good. I was actually ready to sleep, laying down readinga little when mom came in and since then I've gotten this stuff lotty gave me, she's my Grandma, mom's mom great aunt, and cruied, talked to my dad on phone, tried to call work to get off and also ate at leats 5 bowls of cereal that I',m not going to bother with purging right now.I have to go for now, I probably won't be on the computer at all for a few days, but take care and please pray for the family in general, they get scary, another aunt Jackie, she dies and the ambulance came to the layout to get my uncle Paul, he had a heart attck there, which is what she had died from/ help us to be strong for the next few weeks :(