Fairfield TX holds many memories for me. Naps, 42, singing, getting ears punctured in the back of a pick up bed for "weight loss" purposes! But my favorite memory is in the person of my wife's grandmother - Jewel Morris. I will refer to her as "Granny" simply because, when introducing myself for the first time, she said "Call me Granny" - as to which my wife replied, "Everyone else does"!
She lived for 86 years, and if you broke apart the word "lived", you could see: loved, taught, made laugh, led, cared, served, and countless other positive influential phrases that could be inserted. I just remember he being so funny. Without even trying, I'm sure. Her little phrases that she spouted off mid-sentence catching people off guard. She would always ask me to play the piano. "Go over, sit down and play something." Before I got through with "What would you like to hear?" - She would interrupt "It don't matter!"
If she had a Facebook, her statuses would probably constantly be
Jewell Morris: Cooked for several people today.
Served everyone that I crossed paths with.
Gave a lot of advice today.
Skunked some friends and family at 42.
Made the world a better place and made it look easy!
...and ALL of her friends would like her status!
I will miss her house. The sounds, availability of food. Scanner in the background, tv on for the kids, the pictures, the way she would ask questions specific to each individual life. "How is your singing group?" "Or, "how is work at your hospital?"
My Mother's mother passed when I was only one year old, so, she was VERY much my second Grandmother.
We celebrated her life this past Monday and all the wonderful things said about how great of a person she was made me re-evaluate the relationship with my own family. It also makes me want to leave the legacy that she was able to leave. I am not used to so many members of a family staying that close for that long. The Matriarch can make or break a family. She set the example of how it is to be done!
She will be missed but NEVER forgotten. She will quoted, and honored.
God has truly added a Jewel to his treasure in Heaven.
Thank you.
