May Day! May Day! I wonder
why they use that as a call for help. Isn’t it really a call to celebrate
spring, to plant flowers or watch last year’s daffodils return to life, to
frolic around the May Pole, to suck in the smell of damp earth. Well, that’s
what I think. May is a time of year for animals to be born as well, not just
cows and other barnyard animals, but apparently for us humans too. Quite a few
of my relatives were born in May. Today I will pay tribute to the one born on
May 22, 1920.
I don’t know if I have an
older picture of Aunt Helen, my mother’s older sister, but here she is on her
wedding day. It is pretty obvious that Uncle Bob’s best man was his brother,
Jack. The maid of honor was Aunt Helen’s cousin Tudie. Jack and Tudie were
already husband and wife, so cousins married brothers.
In May of 2000, the family
had an 80th birthday party for her. Her youngest son Philip had
already passed away and Dick, in the wheelchair, passed away in June 2004. Aunt Helen had not had an easy life.
Here is Aunt Helen at a
wedding in July of 2004. Isn’t she a cutie? I have had many adventures with her
over the years. She had always been like a second mother to me.
I’ve written here before
about the day Aunt Helen left us. I live in the faith that I will see her again
someday.
3 comments:
What a beautiful tribute Chris. It sounds like she was a wonderful person.
She was an incredibly strong woman too. Some day I will share how Huntington's disease ravaged her family.
Oh Chris! Wonderful remembrance of a wonderful woman. I can see a book coming out of those adventures! Woo hoo! Huntington's disease is a terrible disease. I do know about that. Can't wait to hear more about Aunt Helen!
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