Deaths in the Family
May 23, 2008 | Items of Interest
You will not know them, but they are my mother’s people. I grew up with them, and they were very dear to me. They are members of the McLure family.
I called my friend of (many years), Mary Jo. We have been friends since we were fourteen years old. It was time for us to check in with one another again. I kept having the urge to call her….like there was something I needed to know, and at the same time, I was thinking about my Aunt Ann McLure, the last member of that family. I knew she must be 86-88 years old. Mary Jo told me right away that she had just read about Ann’s death in the Macon Telegraph. I pulled up the information on the MJacon Telegraph’s Obituaries. Then I went to Whitepages.com, and got her son, Larry, (that would be my first cousin) phone number….called him…he answered, and we chatted with twenty-one years to make up. The last time I saw Larry was in 1987 when his father (my Uncle Frank) died. He told my that my cousin, Cherry, had died of Cancer. Cherry would be 57 years old now. I don’t know when she died. I didn’t get that from Larry before I hung up. Alex is going to call him and get all the information. Alex and Larry were like Siamese Twins practically. They were inseparable when they were little boys. Where there was one….there was the other. Alex hasn’t talked to Larry since he (Alex) married Jeanette in 1960. Or somewhere around that time, anyway. i don’t always get my facts straight. The older you get, the more your brain is expected to handle.
And my brain has had it for the day. Crystal…don’t forget to look for Ursula Guthrie.
One Response to “Deaths in the Family”
Oh, yes. And another thing I needed to know from Mary Jo. I was very sad to hear that her husband of 51 years, Bobby, has Parkinson’s.
By mother on May 23, 2008