Grandmother was a very hard worker. She loved to work in the kitchen. She was an excellent cook. One of my favorite things that she would make
was a pineapple cake. She taught me how
to make the “7 minute icing” and the pineapple syrup that went on top. We always had that cake at special events
when I was growing up.
She was also an excellent seamstress. She made the most beautiful quilts that we
all still enjoy today. She made them out
of old dresses of ours. She made us each
a baby quilt, a quilt when we were about 14 and another when we were
married. These quilts took her about a
year to make. She did them all by hand.
Grandmother never got a driver’s license. She never drove a car. She was always so calm and I used to tell her
it was because she never had to drive and deal with traffic.
She was very practical and felt that you should “make do”
with what you had. I remember when I was
planning my wedding, there was a lady who wanted to charge over $100 to make me
a vale. Grandmother, who hardly ever
spoke above a whisper, laughed out loud.
I remember we were all shocked.
Grandmother never joined the church in this life. Grand daddy had died pretty early in life and
I think that was part of the reason. She
came to church every Sunday and everyone in the ward loved her and called her
Grandmother. She lived with us from the
time I was about 12. She lived to be
96. When she died, we all went to do her
sealing to Grand daddy. It was a rushed
day and there was some confusion about the paperwork in the temple. It seemed a little chaotic especially for the
temple and I remember asking the sealer to please stop for a minute so I could
tell them something about Grandmother. I
said “Grandmother never rushed in her life.
I don’t think she would like this sealing to be rushed.” Then I told them about how she loved to quilt
and how she loved her family more than anything in the world. I really felt like Grandmother was there and
everything seemed to settle down. I
think she would have liked that.
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