GRANDMOTHER

My dear, sweet Grandmother had three soms and one daughter.
Uncle Harry, who was my favorite uncle, was the oldest,and a motorcycle cop in Miami,whose one leg was severed in a motorcycle accident,as far back as I can remember.I adored him, and would cut out pictures and send them to him in his little trailer, and he would send back hand blown glass figurines to me. I reconnected with his son, Harry Jr., before I moved to Beaufort, but found out that he just died this past year.
Mother's brother,Howard, was a dashing man in his younger years,who married a cuban girl, who made the best black beans and rice around.She was Bebe Rebozo's sister,and her brother was President Nixon's friend,so I was able to meet him when I was about thirteen.
Uncle Howard was the caretaker onIslandia, an island off of Homestead,Florida.We drove to it by boat, and the only means of electricit on the island was by a small generator.I learned to deep sea fish with him and caught my first fifteen pound Mutton Snapper therethis was also where I met President Nixon. Uncle Howard also played a mean trumpet,and Grandmother use to send him extra money to help him out,until she found out he was playing in a night club,and then she stopped sending it. She meant so much to him,that he quit playing in the night club!
Uncle MJ was the baby of the clan.He was a retired Navy Chaplain, and had five children.He and Aunt Virginia retired to Lake Joanna,in Mount Dora.
He retired to the exact spot that he proposed to his wife on,some eighty years before.
He has been all over the world, and close to the end of his life, he and I became very close.That leaves the only girl......Mama!Mama was born in 1910 in Harrisburg,Pennsylvania, but lived most of her life in Miami where she went to school with Joseph Cotten,and even dated Bob Jones!She went to Stetson University in Delan;, married Daddy and moved to my Mount Dora, where she had five of "us'ns", and taught elementary school for awhile.
Grandmother Bouterse loved her children.No matter what befell her,she reared them with the fear;admonition and love of the Lord.She did her grandchildren the same way.Michael and I seem to have benefitted the most. They say we are three fourths of our grandparents and a quarter of our parents. If that's the case,I guess I'm in pretty good condition!
Actually,I'd like to be a hundred percent of my Father!
Becky