Thursday, June 9, 2022
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Aunt Thelma, as i sit here and divert back to all the good old days when we would visit and those cookouts and all the food our family would cook whenever we got together we use to talk about from our phone discussions and how we missed those days are forever stuck with me. Those are moments I cherish forever, but the most important moment that stuck out to me i knew how sick you were when i was retiring from the military after 30 years of serving in the US Navy, and you made sure you were there and i know you didn't feel well. As i told you before God called you home when we spoke on the phone, that meant the world to me and i'm forever grateful!
You know how much my family(Zetta, Lakara, Keiara) loved you. A moment that made me smile when Keiara was young and started walking and we visited you, i told Ma when we got back to NC that Keiara went to you and didn't cry, even was following you around in the kitchen(I laughed so hard) because Ma was a little salty saying "How my butterball going to go to Thelma and start crying when she come to me"? I told her i believe it was the strawberry perserves that you made. Ma said "Thelma better not be trying to steal my baby". Quite classic of her, and you would always remind me of that when we spoke.
There's so much more memories that i have as i was growing up and how Me and Babe use to argue with each other whenever you all came down and we met up at Aunt Doot's(Annie Mae Williams) home. We were kind of bad though, but you and Ma came out and put us both in check really quick. Love those fun times.
Well the good lord knows it was time to bring another beautiful angel to his golden gate kingdom and he couldn't have brought a more stronger beautiful one than you. As me and cuzzo Beverly stated, we know heaven going to be rockin up there with you, Ma, and the other siblings waiting on you. You will truly be missed, but never forgotten. You have left a legacy of a matriarch that will be so hard to emulate.
In closing, there's a poem i will share that i feel describes you:
Though your smile is gone forever and your hand we cannot touch, we still have so many memories of the Aunt we loved so much. Your memory is now our keepsake which with we'll never part. God has you in his keeping, we have you in our heart. May the winds of Heaven blow softly and whisper in your ear. How much we love and miss you and wish that you were here. "RIP Auntie”
To my cousins: Babe, Kenny, Ann and Glenda please know God has her now and she's resting in peace and having been through this a few years ago losing my mom, remember and cherish the good times, that will get you through the hard times. May God be with you all and continue to guide you.
Love,
Marty, Zetta, Kara, and Keiara (Chesapeake, Va.)
