My Parents and Some Memories

My mother was a kind and wonderful person . She had four sisters Louise,Bebe,Julia,and Rachel whom was same age as me . Three brothers Thomas,Kenneth,and Owen . Mom growing up met my dad in July 1949 and got married . They had me in June of 1950 and my brother July 1953 . I faintly remember some of the places we lived . I was told when i was born and was brought home from hospital , that dad was driving us home and was going down a hill and got in a very sharp curve . Moms door flew open and she fell out and rolled down a hill . Only thing that kept me in car was dad holding me beside him . He got mom back in car and she was crying and scared . She didn't get hurt . He took her down to grandma's to cry it out .
Dad wasn't much into traveling much so mom didn't get to go places like most people . One house we lived in was in the town of Catawba (lived in North Carolina all our lives)was a flat roofed house that had an elderly woman living in one side . My uncle give me a hammer one day and i was outside beating on a piece of tin . That old woman came out and took my hammer away from me and i never did get it back . I can remember eating out of a slope bucket one time and mom took a hickory switch and got me good on the back of my legs . When we moved from there was in1955 to the place in my other story . In 1958 My dad got his foot hurt and it turned into blood poison . He was in hospital a long time . They took him into the operation room and said they may have take his leg off below the knee . The doctor cut into his ankle and puss shot out of it and doc got it all out . They put off the operation and his leg cleared up . His ankle the bone in it was eaten up and he had to wear a steel brace the rest of his life . His disabilty money ran out . He got 36 dollars a week to live on . It was enough to live on . We had to move and Grandpa give mom a piece of land and he helped dad get a loan to buy a very small mobile home . It was 8 feet wide and 30 couple feet long . This was September 1959 when we moved in it . My dad worked in pain for a lot of years trying to support us . He found out he could get help from the VA because he served in the Army Air Force in WW2. When his checks started he got to quit work . All my Dad's people lived in South Carolina in and around Columbia . All the kin he had was step mother who was a great mom to him . His real mother died when he was 12 . We would go down and see them . His Half brother named Wiley had 13 kids by his wife . Her name was Minnie ,she sure knew hot to make big biscuits . Most are dead now and i don't know where any of them live today . We lived in that little trailer till 1970 . My brother and me took out tax refund checks and paid down on a 12x60 mobile home . This is when we got out first bathroom and hot water . It made it so much easier on mom and dad . (A lot happened between these dates that i will tell later) In March 1983 my dad died . I came home from work and mom said i should go check on dad . I went into his room and asked him if he would go to the hospital He shook his head no . I went into my room and tears was built up in my eyes so bad . I went back in his room and called out to him . His eyes was open and i knew i had to call 911 . They got there and it was raining cats and dogs .The first responders were working on him . His blood pressure was so low . They carried him up the hall to a stretcher . I still see him today gnawing his jaw . After they got him to hospital the couldn't get his pressure back up and pronounced him dead . Said it was congestive heart failure. My mom died in1990 . She went up the road to see my great aunt and when she was sitting on the porch . She fell over dead . The first responders carried her inside because of the heat . I never got to see mom or get to tell her how much i loved her .

So if you are reading this story and your parents are still alive reach out and tell them how much you love them . Those memories are so precious .

Written by Wayne