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The above poem was hand written in a Christmas Card from my Great Aunt Ree who was also my God Mother; Christmas 1978.
On Christmas Eve 1978, she had baked her famous Busy Day Cake, and was reaching into the cellar way for a can of condensed
milk on a shelf. She lost her footing and fell down the cellar steps.
She was 77 years old at the time of her fall. She managed to make it
back up the steps and into bed.
Christmas morning her leg was terribly swollen and bruised. My brother
Buddy went up to see her, and called the squad. She was taken to Warren
Hospital. I went to visit her that Christmas day and brought her a
small gift, a porcelain child on a sled. I did not know that it would
be the last time I would see her alive.
On December 30th while I was working as a barber at the Palmer Park
Barber Shop, I received a phone call from my sister Ruth Ann telling me
that Aunt Ree, our God Mother had passed away. Apparently, she had a
pulmonary embolism.
While
helping Uncle Bill prepare for an auction sale I found a daily
devotional book in her desk, and on the thirtieth of December there was a
poem, that ended with these words; "A few more rolling
suns, at most, will land me on fair Canaan's coast, then I shall sing
the song of grace, and see my Savior face to face." Prepare to meet thy
God. Amos 4: 12
It is my thought that in that year a week away all her dreams came true. She so loved our Lord and devoted her life to teaching anyone about the divine mercy of our Savior the Christ Child.
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