Buried Aunt Katherine today
My Dad's 2nd oldest sister.
Six Children only two left now, Prentice and Juanita.
Aunt Kat came after Aunt Virginia, then my Dad, the Fremont; all gone now.
Lot of family stories told again, and my brother and sister, joined cousins Tim and Vicky, and Tim's wife Shirley to sing Beulah Land as Aunt Katherine asked.
Proud of my second Cousin Ken who gave a strong testimony about his character of a Grandmother, Aunt Katherine.
If you live in Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia or East Tennessee in the last 100 years, one of us knew somebody who knew you, cause as they say of some clans, we never met a stranger.
Katherine Fox Simmons
http://www.jenningsfuneralhome.com/sitemaker/sites/jennin0/obit.cgi?user=katherinesimmons
Six Children only two left now, Prentice and Juanita.
Aunt Kat came after Aunt Virginia, then my Dad, the Fremont; all gone now.
Lot of family stories told again, and my brother and sister, joined cousins Tim and Vicky, and Tim's wife Shirley to sing Beulah Land as Aunt Katherine asked.
Proud of my second Cousin Ken who gave a strong testimony about his character of a Grandmother, Aunt Katherine.
If you live in Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia or East Tennessee in the last 100 years, one of us knew somebody who knew you, cause as they say of some clans, we never met a stranger.
Katherine Fox Simmons
http://www.jenningsfuneralhome.com/sitemaker/sites/jennin0/obit.cgi?user=katherinesimmons
posted by foxofbama | 2:15 PM
5 Comments:
Fox, Condolences to you and your family. One aspect of your blogs that connects with me is the way you describe relationships and a sense of tradional connection to people and places. I find that refreshing and uplifting.
Thanks for the kind words Stephen.
I think you will like my next blog on Obama and my hometown paper
Fox, I also offer my belated condolences to you and your family.
Bruce:
Thank you for taking a look at my blog and commenting on Aunt Kat's passing. One of her church memberships was Garden Lakes, Rome Georgia, about three miles west of West Rome Baptist.
Clarence Drummond was her pastor for a time in the thick of the SBC takeover; Drummond a fellow I imagine Buddy Shurden knows pretty well.
It was Drummond who gave me a ride to Atlanta the day I met WPost's Tom Edsall at the 86 SBC.
Aunt Kat and Uncle Paul were waiting in the waiting room at Ft. Payne Hospital when I got there in late Jan 88 to get the news my Mother's cancer was terminal.
That was the silent witness she and Uncle Paul were, even with all their hilarious running Bob Newhart like family episodic entertainments.
As an aside, I would welcome a comment in my beef tip blog above where I reference you in my geneaological site as Luc Sante calls it; the incident of the librarian and BL.com of June 2006.
You rank up there with superstars Randall Balmer, David Flick, Johnny Pierce and William Thornton as folks who at one time or another have commented here and it is an honor.
Here is a comment a friend of Aunt Kat's from their time in Charlottesville, Va. made in her honor:
HELEN SAUL
Kim and Ken= WAS SORRY TO LEARN ABOUT KATHERINE. SHE WAS A DEAR AND I OFTEN THINK OF THE GOOD TIMES WE HAD WHEN SHE WAS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE. OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO BOTH OF YOU.
01/26/2009
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