[AT] Farewell to a country woman

[Gene Dotson]

    Dean;

    Sorry to hear of your loss. Such a comfort to have all good memories 
with her.

                    Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
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Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 7:37 PM
Subject: [AT] Farewell to a country woman


> We laid my grandmother to rest today, next to my grandfather, and it was
> good to see them together again.  She turned 100 years old last 
> Thanksgiving
> Day and was healthy and in good spirits when I saw her then; I'm surprised
> she passed so quickly but am glad she didn't suffer.
>
> I've lived most of my life in the suburbs but grew up on a little farm in
> the country, which my dad had bought since he missed the rural 
> surroundings
> of his youth.  We'd go to visit Grandma and Grandpa each year on their 
> farm
> just south of Mooresville, Indiana, and it was always a place of hard work
> but familiar comfort.  I can remember the great big whole-pan-size 
> pancakes
> Grandma would make in her black iron skillet on the stove in the kitchen,
> and the smell of dog food on the back porch, and picking tomatoes with
> Grandpa, and building Grand Coulee Dam with our Tonka trucks and dozers in
> the cool dirt beneath the big lilac bush.  I remember playing Rook (Rook 
> was
> okay; normal playing cards seemed to be frowned upon), and the wild 
> morning
> glory vines in the young corn as we walked between the rows to the creek 
> at
> the end of the field, and the stories my dad told of growing up there, a
> skinny 10-year-old kid cultivating corn and soybeans with a Farmall F-20
> while daydreaming of having a Farmall M like the big farmers (and thereby
> helping plant my own longtime lust for M-series tractors).  Throughout it
> all, Grandma was a constant:  Always working, always busy, yet always with
> time for a smile and kind word for my brothers and sister, my cousins, the
> neighbor kid, and me.  Sleep well now, Grandma.
>
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton, Ohio
> www.vinsonfarm.net
>
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>
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