Hey Mommy! We baked and decorated cookies and ate popcorn and watched movies. What a fun time! Missing you so much this Christmas 

I can only say on Mother’s Day, you are with the greatest Mother  and Father  that was , will
always be, and is to come back to this Earth and He will establish His Kingdom Here!, God Our Father, God The Son , and God the Holy Spirit (for those of us that are still here on this Earth waiting for the Rapture or our transition which ever one comes first !) I am thankful you are in All Glory and All Truth now! No more hurt, no more confusion, and no more pain for you. I love you jaz

On the eve of officially celebrating Mother’s Day, I’m here remembering you Mom, Violet Decarlo Mitchell Range. You would insist on writing out your full name ☺️ Always has been and forever will be in my heart. Today as I look at pics, I’m reminded of how much I and Sonja look like you. As you would always say, “We have those strong genes Girl!” I’m reminded of your intelligence, business savvy, sensitivity AND your tenacity, your great big heart and how you LOVED soooo hard! Last night dinner with Ponce, Jr. was good medicine hearing the stories and learning more about your side of my family. God answers prayers. Happy Heavenly Mother’s Day Mommy

Just remembering you today like everyday :).I love you!  Until we meet again your forever remembered by me always! ❤️ Jazz 

❤️. Jas

Aunt Violet loved all Holidays:). Until I see you again your memories are forever in my  heart ❤️ Love, Jazz

..I never got to share my poems I wrote 9 years ago with you or really anybody. This one is appropriate for today. I know your in Heaven enjoying the Best music ever,  and worshiping The Lord of lords and King of kings. But I know if you were here you would say RIGHT ON Jazz and you would love this poem ☺️! Always in my heart #musicaltalentrunsintheTidwellblood☺️thankyoutoalltheTidwellsthatcamebeforeus

Tuesday, April 26, 2011(Easter in ‘11 was on 4/24, I wrote this poem a couple days before Easter 2011, however I posted to social media April 26, 2011. For those that are reading this.)

So Mom...I was researching our lineage on Ancestry.com and look what came up. :-). Thank you for the “love wink”.  You continue to amaze me.

I remember when you left me a Christmas message and you sung to me. ❤️Aliyah

Violet it has been 2 months and 4 days and about 18 hours since you passed. I think about you everyday. I think about your last days here on this Earth, I think about the person that found you and called 911, I think about your heart when you gave your friend your purse before you left in the ambulance on that cold Winter morning Dec 24, 2019, I think about your final words to the nurses, doctors, and social workers that were helping you and became your family during that time. And I want to say I love you, and I probably would have done and said the same-thing.
   While you were here ...you, my mom and knowing more of Kathleen’s (my late grandmother) story .. All of You (and there are many more women I can name) are some of the Courageous, Bravest, Strongest Women I have known and know.  I love you, I will always carry my Cross like you did, until  you took your last breath, you proclaimed Jesus, you fought for those that were opposed, mistreated, you protected me, my brother , and my mom every time we needed you and the late Unc D growing up. You protected All your children the best you knew how, I love you for that! You lived life to the best of your ability with the tools you were given I love you for that. I fight everyday for those that are mistreated, oppressed, hurting and misunderstood, when I think of backing down because I am tired, I think of you and your last days here, and I fight on for those that can not or do not know how to fight for themselves! .. Happy Late National Women’s Day! .....I thought it was today it was yesterday ❤️ But everyday your memories live in my heart ! Forever missed until I see you again! Jazz

A tribute to my grandmother! I’m super late doing this but...this is my favorite picture of my late grandmother Violet Mitchell aka “Grandma With The Plat”. I see so much of my mother and myself in her photo. Although we didn’t get to spend much time getting to know each other since she lived so far away, I inherited a few of her attributes. Her handwriting, her looks, and her free spirit that I didn’t tap into until my older years. I wanted to thank you for blessing me with my mom Danita Sonja Mitchell and blessing me with keepsake pieces of you. This is not a RIP message but a love note! With all my love, from your Lady T! ❤️ -Sonja Tranese Mitchell

This is Violet's living sister Carrie, when she was younger living in Kannapolis, NC. :)  Carrie and her daughter Jasmin do look alike:). 

Tidwells! 

Zane (he wasn’t a Sr at that time) met Violet, and through their acquaintance, Zane was introduce to Carrie Lee. 

I remember one of the last photos of Zet too on the tractor still taking care of the Tidwell land. -Cousin Judy 


-(still carrying on the Tidwell tradition with her land and tractor !..Violet ❤️ would haven been so proud!!!-❤️ Jazz and Carrie

I remember Aunt Violet when I was small sitting on her lap. I thought she was so beautiful just like her mother who was stunning ❤️. I also remember the good ole days when Carrie Lee, & all of us older cousins were small. I loved it when my mom Carolyn, & uncle Alfred's older sister Betty Jean use to take some of us to North Carolina most summers to spend time with great grand daddy Joe, aunt Zetoria, other aunts, uncles, & cousins. Uncle Al use to drive us. He had this awesome 67 Lincoln, or was it a New Yorker... which I believe had  funny hedged rear doors that opened out backwards, where the handles faced each other. We all also piled up in an old Monte Carlo he owned. & long after the New Yorker wad gone. He would drive us to kannaplis. Sometimes aunt Betty would take several of us kids down on the train. Those times had a great impact on my life. I feel more whole because of them in many ways. It's sort of about the roots. -Judy!

Aunt Violet loved holidays!

Thinking of you -Jazz and Carrie

Cara Kelly sends her Condolences !:) ☺️

(Cara was one of my college buddies between 2005-2009 that had the opportunity and privilege to meet Violet!!..We became forever friends after graduation and she always remembered my aunt,  after meeting her for the first time! Cara would frequently ask me about her during our college days)

One of Violet’s favorite time of year Christmas !

Sabrazia (Bray)...says “I remember her when we would go to tucson. we seen here out there”...never forgotten Auntie ..love you Bray and Jas

For those that are reading this, myself and my friends would always go visit with my auntie violet every time I visited Tucson. She enjoyed my friends so much so, most every time I go to Tucson I made sure I brought a friend with me so they could meet her or see her again. ☺️

When auntie Violet came to stay with me a couple days in Phoenix she got to meet most of rest of my college friends or church friends at the time. Most of these people if not all of them,  I am still friends with to this day ..and they all remember Violet :)

Thank you for being so special Auntie Violet when you were here on Earth:). You never turned me away, you never said don’t come visit me at my camps, you always said I’ll be here and if I am not here I’ll be at this place, and I’ll say okay Dont worry I’ll find you!:) You say okay jazz  and sometimes give me a thumbs up ...it was unconditional love at its finest between us from our experiences together ...we always ended our visitations with you saying I Love You Jazz and I would say I Love You Auntie Violet. You’d kiss me and l’d hug you ...☺️..it was and is God’s Beauty at it’s best