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Thanks Rosie.
"...yeah she died a couple of weeks ago" my mom said matter of factly.
"God she must've been a hundred and fifty years old. Sad." I said to close that little bit of conversation on family history. It was a hollow acknowledgement at best.
I can't say I knew her that well. The last time I saw her was at a funeral back in '92. I hugged her and made small talk--as best I could given we had a couple of generations and a dying hearing-aid between us.
Leslie thought she was "awesome".
This is what I remember about her:
1.) Rosie was my great aunt. My mom's mom's sister.
2.) She smelled like roses. Chokingly so.
3.) She was one of the four Markham sisters from Mississippi.
4.) She lived in D.C.
5.) She was stylish, smart, contemporary, and well liked.
6.) Single, white, female.
7.) She had no lips.
8.) She had big hair, and no eyebrows.
9.) Smirked, didn't smile.
This is what I found out about her after she died:
1.) Her name was Mayde. Mayde Rose Miller. Since she went from a Markham to a Miller, she must've married at some point in her life.
2.) She had a strong sense of family.
I write this post as a thank you to her, albeit way, WAY late. You see after Rosie died, someone found a paper sack tucked away in one of her old trunks. Inside the sack was a stack of Treasury Bonds that were purchased back in the 60's and 70's. The bonds were made out in the name of each of her nieces and nephews and also grand nieces and grand nephews.
Pretty cool, huh?
Finding out that she thought about us, and cared enough about us to do something like that is pretty cool too!
Thanks Rosie!
Love,
Markham
9/1/2004 09:07:25 PM
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