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Friday, November 10, 2006

Aunt Ruth-a sad goodbye.

My dear Aunt Ruth passed away this week at age 96.


I have fond memories of visiting Aunt Ruth's house during my childhood years. It was always a pleasure to see her and my uncle and cousins. She had SIX boys- no girls!
I remember sitting on the back porch with the boys and eating buttermilk and hot corn bread, with a spoon! Once there was a big family reunion at Aunt Ruth's place, with
almost the whole Burttram (my mom's maiden name) clan. All the Aunts, Uncles and cousins were there! My grandpa (Big Papa)was still with us. A fun time to remember-oh-so long ago.(I was a young teen)

Aunt Ruth was younger than my mom by about 2 years, I believe. (We lost mom almost 4years ago, at age 94.) Aunt Ruth was the last of Mom's 7 sisters and 4 brothers.

Mom was close to her family. They all kept in touch with long, newsy letters of family stuff. Some might call them rambling and boring but I always liked reading those letters from all the aunts. Through the years the sisters would exchange pictures of their kids and later, their grandkids. They were all equally proud of their own families - as our mom was of hers. Because of these close ties between the sisters -our mom and aunts- I felt closer to the cousins; though we actually didn't see them often through the years.

I had not seen Aunt Ruth or my cousins in many years until 2004. We went to visit her in Alabama, and all her boys were able to be there. It was just great seeing them all again. Aunt Ruth enjoyed it so much! We all did.

It was easy to see the love her 6 sons had for her and how well she was looked after!

Aunt Ruth was a little lady- well under 5ft.
( I'm just 5ft.tall and you can see I tower over Aunt Ruth in this photo! :) )

She always had the sweetest smile!
Aunt Ruth and her boys-Hoyt, Glenn, Randall,Edward, Don and Lamar (2004)










Aunt Ruth and June (ME) (2004





















Undated picture of... Back row- Uncle Rudolph & Aunt Bernice, Center row -Essie(my mom) and Aunt Ruth, Front-Aunt Willie




Remembering,
With
Love,

Junie

10 Comments:

At 4:45 PM , Blogger Skye said...

Oh, I'm sorry Junie. :(
She sounds like a wonderful aunt!

 
At 6:30 AM , Blogger JunieRose2005 said...

Skye,

Yes, she was a dear.

Thanks,

Junie

 
At 5:02 PM , Blogger Susie said...

It's always so sad when the last of a generation passes on. She lived a long full life, didn't she!
I'm truly sorry for your loss, Junie...

 
At 5:10 PM , Blogger JunieRose2005 said...

Sue,

Thank you- Yes, aunt Ruth had a long and good life-with 6 devoted sons(and their wives)-and numerous grandchildren.

But, yes, it is sad to know that the last of Mom's brothers and sisters are gone.

Thanks for coming by.

Junie

 
At 5:32 PM , Blogger Judypatooote said...

Thank God, for pictures and stories like you are telling....I just told my aunt that I want to go over and have her tell me some stories about her and my mom....I wish I would have ask my mom more about her life....she told me some, but NOW that she is gone, it wasn't enough....and my aunt if 85 or 86.....NICE STORY ABOUT YOUR AUNT.....

 
At 6:49 PM , Blogger JunieRose2005 said...

Yes, My Aunt Ruth was the last of My Mom's family. (bros and sisters) I was happy we had made the effort to see her, not too long before she passed on. It was a happy day.

This blog is dedicated to my mom. We lost her 4 years ago and writing this blog helped me deal with it. I started out with my earliest memories of our life...all the things I could remember. Some are funny-some sad- It follows our life until about age 13 for me> Some poems are in here too.

To get more out of the story, it's best read in order from the beginning...(lol- starting when I was 3 yrs old.)

Thanks for coming.

Junie

 
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