Today we are celebrating the life of my great grandma! She would have been 95 yesterday! I’ve really enjoying sitting here and looking at pictures with Eleanor this morning just the two of us! They brought so many wonderful childhood memories! My Memaw was a fiercely independent, classy woman! She loved her family, gardening, roses, coffee, and dogs! She was strong and well spoken. Memaw was traditional and lived by how a lady should act. I told you she would have been 95 yesterday but I didn’t know how old she was most of my childhood or even early adulthood. If you asked her how old she was her reply was always “It’s not polite to ask a woman her age, dear.” It didn’t matter who was asking. Lol. I can’t ever a remember a time when I heard my great grandmother raise her voice, ever, not one memory comes to mind. She was the kind of woman you listened to when she spoke because you respected her and she really only spoke when she had something to say! There’s a lot I can learn from her demeanor! While we can’t live with regrets, I do deeply wish I would have gone to see her more often these past few years! Life gets so busy and even with the best of intentions it will pass you by. Seeing her bond with my own children was a unique experience for me and I often found myself so amazed watching my great grandma hold these little people I created, her great, great grandchildren! Her love multiplied with each generation! It often felt like there were too many of us(she had fourteen great grandchildren! I didn’t even count right the other day!) but when I had Easton I felt so special that she would come to me to meet him. It was an act of love that meant so much to me! She was already not getting out much anymore (she was 90!) and it made me feel incredibly loved! I’m so blessed for the time with her that I did have! Memaw, thank you for all the wonderful memories and I hope you’re dancing with Great while we celebrate you today! I love you! ❤️

I want to thank you Meemaw for all of the memories you blessed me with.  I grew up with my cousins and to this day Angie still feels more like a sister than cousin.  That is because of all the trips to the farm, long walks collecting rocks then washing them in your glass “Tang” pitcher while we looked at the cows.  Taking Us and our rocks to the local rock and gem shop to see if we had found and treasures.  My most treasured memory of the farm is all of the shows we put on the front porch with Jennifer, Angie & I singing “Delta Dawn” into the ends of our jump ropes. I hope she is singing to you today.   I remember you teaching me to pain, the many museum trips and walks along the strand.  Those are beautiful moments but my favorites include watching you chase grandpa with your shoe when you came home to 4 of your grandkids with fiberglass burning every inch of our bodies because Grandpa filled up an old fiberglass boat and let us swim in it.  I love the fact I still want a hot toddie when I feel sick because you would have us sip on one when our throats were soar.  I can remember thinking you were such a strong woman which you were but through my childish eyes you could handle cattle like a man, carried the smallest pistol I had ever seen in your purse, walking with you to collect rent at the apartments you owned thinking wow Meemaw is a boss!  So strong you could do anything however so soft an beautiful we would play for hours in all of your beautiful scarfs and jewelry.  I could go on an on but I will end with this... thank you for words not many people say or hear any more.  Words that bring back memories of you.   Devan (aka loveseat) cackling (you fussing at Me and Angie to stop our cackling while you were driving). Leave them be...I love that one , so much more elegant than yelling stop touching everything.  
Thank you for raising my mom to be just as strong, beautiful and brave.  I guess I know where I get my wild side & I have both your strength within me. 

Aunt Opal was a wonderful lady that set a great example for others to follow. The pics brought back many fond memories our family’s shared .  Dee, I know dad was glad to see his sister. 
Love y’all Wayne  & Judy 

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Opal A Williams

February 24, 1924 – February 21, 2019

Brookside Funeral Home & Memorial Park

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