Suzanne Wilbur
I sent a card c/o Julie back in August and hoped she would pass that on to all of you, but am also sending this to the rest of you in the hopes that you will know I share in your sorrows, though losing a Mother, like losing ones' life-mate is much harder than losing a sister.
In the last years of her life, after she lost your Dad, the same year I lost my Jim, I began to call her for phone visits as I knew how hard it would be for her not having her mate around and though we did'nt always have the closest relationship, I believe this cemented my deeply felt beliefs that "once sister, always sisters," and was rewarded by her, then giving me a phone call now and then for those visits and felt that all those other years were erased. I was blessed to have called her a couple of weeks before she left this world and am so glad I had that chance.
She is and has always been on my ever-growing prayer list of family and friends both still here and those long gone.
There was about an 8 year difference in our ages and since she left home at age 16 or so, I don't have a lot of memories to share, other then still remembering that when our Dad was drafted in WW11 and before she left for nurses' training in Minnesota, my 3 sisters and I were there with our Mom and your Mom and your Aunt Joan when they were in their teens, watching them get ready for dates and other events when the "fashion" of the day was quite different than today. One memory concerning one or the other of them was being all dressed up for some occasion and slipping on the orange berries from the trees my Dad had planted in our front parkway and having to go in and change those clothes because of the "mess" they created. I also remember at least one of the young high-school boys your Mom was dating. Did she ever mention a Calvin Waite?
Stay close to each other and remember that next to God, the next most important thing in life is the family he gives to each of us. There's just no replacement for that.
Lovingly,
Aunt Susie
