I miss you just as much today as I did the day GOD took you HOME!!! I know you and I didn’t always see eye to eye on a lot of things but you were still my momma for more than half of my life and you were a wonderful momma. I love you and miss you so very much.

I have to correct my sister just a little bit on the tribute she wrote about this wonderful woman that was my favorite aunt on that side of the family for the first 13 years of my life, then by the GRACE OF GOD she became my mother because GOD needed my first momma back at HOME with HIM. The ditch was "polecat" ditch, momma was turning off of Hwy 69 onto Maple Grove Rd(or WPA Road, as it was called back then).
I remember Naomi telling me about that and she said that a man (she said his name but I can't remember it) was trying to get her to let go to me...he kept saying that baby will float, let go of the baby until you get out of the car. She said I wasn't about to let go of you, Chel, why I told him he was crazy if he thought would ever think about letting go of this baby. She said that "idiot" said well Naomi that baby will float because it's calm. But she never let go of me and when my momma died in 1985, she "picked me up again" and didn't let go until the day came that she was called HOME TO BE WITH GOD!!! She should have let go of me and allowed me to "hold her out of the water" for the last 8 years of her life, especially the last 5 years but she wouldn't. I love you and miss you so much NayNay!!!!

My favorite aunt on that side of the family for more than just her being an aunt. I was only 6 years old but I remember it like it was yesterday, it was Christmas Eve 1972, my momma, my aunt, my new baby sister, and another aunt was on their way from Trumann to my grandma and grandpa Brown's house and slid into the bay ditch that was full of water, the car started filling up fast and my aunt got my momma to get out of the car on to the roof of the car while holding my sister up above her head. My momma was scared to death when water was over her head and she couldn't touch bottom so she was freaking out. My sister was born on the 20th so that made momma freak more, but my aunt even though she was freaking out she stayed calm for momma. Then some people came by and helped. She is just one of those amazing women that I grew up around.