Saturday, January 18, 2020
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Our Aunt Luella and her children were the only extended family my children knew from their paternal grandmother, Erma Bowman Jones, Aunt Luella's older sister. Although separated by many miles, (we live in NW Washington state), she made and mailed hand made gifts to each of our children at their birth and throughout the years. (We will especially miss her yearly Christmas cards with the correspondence to keep us informed abut her family!)
In 2015, at our daughter's wedding, we finally met her and several cousins. It was a wonderful surprise and she helped to fill the void left by Grandma Jones' death three months earlier. This visit was short and given the demands of an outdoors wedding, we did not have the hours we would have liked to spend with her but were still very grateful to have had the opportunity to be with her, even if for a short time,
Now she has left this world and we will cherish our memories of her forever. To know that she no longer suffers, to believe that she is now with her creator and among those she loved who passed before her, should lift our spirits and ease our heartache.
I once read: "In Life we weep at the thought of Death, but who knows? Perhaps in Death, we will weep at the thought of Life".
Her Washington family: Stan and Naomi Jones, Quin, Shauna and Burton Jones, Carmen, Galen and Eastan Cobbs, and Kiefer, Jeannie and Mia Jones.
