Grandmother

As I was warming up lunch on Sunday, my mom called. When I heard her voice, I knew something was wrong. She was calling to tell me that her mother, my grandmother, had died. Grandmother (GM) was 88 years old. She was the last of her siblings.

GM's full name was Mattie Mozelle Cannon Brown. Most people called her Mozelle. She was named after her grandmother Mattie. She was the middle child - older siblings Dorothy and Carroll and younger siblings Ida Mae and John and Billie Jean who died as a baby. In the picture, she is on the far left.

We were a surprised at the suddenness of her death. But she was tired, struggling with some health issues, and we count it a blessing that she didn't linger and just fell asleep.

Here are some other pictures:

Grandmother & Pa-Pa on their 55th wedding anniversary.

Grandmother & Pa-Pa's church directory picture from 1982 - the were BOTH smiling!!

Grandmother, Mama Bond (my great-grandmother), me, and Laura in front of the house we grew up in in Ashdown - summer of 1980.