RIP Aunt Lil

[stellar_muddle]

Great Aunt really - Dad's mother's sister.
I remember visiting her in New Brighton.
I remember violets, the budgie, the china collection and the big gum tree in the front which would occasionally get trimmed back.
I remember the green card table and chedder cheese on hefty crackers with margarine and the strange high cupboards.
And I remember a warmhearted cheerful woman who wouldn't complain despite the fact that she had crippled legs due to polio when she was a child and had trouble walking.
I remember long rambling conversations which would last all afternoon but wouldn't seem like it.
I remembered to send a Christmas letter for the year before last, but have the nasty suspicion that I forgot for last Christmas. Quite a while since I visited too :(

She dies aged 86. Never married and no children, but various nieces and nephews who would visit when they could.
Many people who will fondly remember her.
I liked her.
I'll miss her.

Comments

[alpha-angel.livejournal.com]

You said pretty much everything I wanted to say. I was thinking about her when we were playing pick-up sticks at the feast the other day - I remember playing with her set on the floor in her living room (next to the violets). I remember climbing the gum tree. I remember the budgie which used to ask if you wanted a cup of tea or a piece of cake, just like Auntie Lil did, but eventually ended up asking if you wanted a cup of cake. It'd been a really long since I saw her, and I'll miss her too.