Another Funeral by Lady PJ

Another Funeral

Written by Philessa Hooks Jenkins

Aka Lady PJ

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Monday, June 16, 2014

     I had another funeral to go to this weekend.  It feels, to me, like I’m going to a funeral every year and it’s always someone that’s lived seventy years or more; this time it was my Great Aunt Willie Mae.  I recall just a few months ago sitting on the porch with her at her home in Marion Junction Alabama watching the birds as they flew by.  She was naming the birds for me and I sat there amazed at the fact that we both enjoyed just sitting there watching the birds fly by.  It was such a calm and peaceful moment for me.  I’m glad we shared that moment.  It’s a very nice memory.

     My Mom and I drove up there to put flowers on my Grandmother’s grave for her birthday and now, some three months later, we’re saying goodbye to Aunt Willie Mae.  The craziest thing is my Grandmother passed away two years to the day we buried my Aunt, June 14. 

     I don’t think it got real to me until they lowered her casket in the ground, that’s really the time when it hit me… her ending is final.  She was the last link to my Grandfather’s hometown and the last link to my Grandmother because they were such good friends; now if I go back there it would be to visit graves.  How sad is that?

     I sat in the church for about fifteen minutes or more and the lives of my loved ones flashed right in front of me; the times I shared with my Great Grandmother before she passed and her burial at the Moore family cemetery, the times we drove up there when I was a child to visit the house on the hill where my Uncle Berry and Aunt Willie Mae lived, and the times I sat in church after church saying goodbye to someone I loved one last time.  It made me realize how fleeting life really is and that eventually someone will one day say their goodbye’s to me.  Hopefully that’s a really long time from now.  I’m just saying!  Much love to you all, Lady PJ.