For Granny.....

(Picture of: Uncle Gus, Granny, Sonny and Daddy picking at a family get-together.)

Granny lost her battle with cancer on July 25, 2010. She is deeply missed.

Daddy found this song and it was played at Granny's funeral. I still bawl like a baby when I hear it. It a beautiful beautiful song.

She is buried in a small cemetery near Denton, Texas, next door to the little white church with a big green doors and shutters that my Papa went to with his family as a child. She is laid among 4 generations of my Papa's family and towering protective oak trees.

I held my Papa for the entire service. I sat behind him(cause we we're late LOL) with my arms wrapped around his small frame as he wept.

I held him as my 4 beautiful cousins sang her home.

I held him as their preacher delivered an absolutely perfect talk about her. We laughed that day as hard as we cried.

I held him as we said our final good byes to her.

I held him. I held him as we were sitting by the graveside and a small gentle breeze seemed to come from nowhere as if to say. "Everything is going to be okay."

I held him.