Thinking about Aunt Jennie's life brings smiles and sweet memories of the fun times we shared. Our family enjoyed each and every time we were together.  Aunt Jennie was a great entertainer.  She loved to cook and we loved to partake.   She would bake Cream Cheese Brownies for birthdays.  If not brownies, she could bake any cake Pig Picking, German Chocolate, Red Velvet snf always baked with love.  Aunt Jennie kept a little book on her dresser with everyone's birthday and anniversary dates.  She was quick with a joke and storytelling.  Her witty charm was unmatched. She always had us on the edge of our seats anticipating what her next story would be. She liked to order merchandise from mail order catalogs and could find the funniest comical birthday cards. 

Aunt Jennie loved her chocolates.  Russell Stover was her favorite boxed candy.  Though she wouldn't turn down Whitman's either. She enjoyed her chocolates and coffee prior to retiring for the evening. Another favorite of hers were Little Debbie's peanut butter wafer cookie covered in chocolate.  I agree

Aunt Jennie's home always had that "laundry day" clean fragrance. She told me she used Avon's Perfumed moth crystals.  Of course, I had to purchase this for my home. I wanted my home to smell as clean as Aunt Jennie's.

A very special friend in her life was Uncle Roger Gray Averette. They were introduced by a family member who also worked for Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Company. They dated for many years. He passed away in 1973 from having pneumonia. I will always remember how much she loved him and my Aunt Louise.

Aunt Jennie relied on public transportation. She would sometimes walk to where she needed to go. Even to the grocery store or the mall.  Back in the day it was Yellow Taxi Cab service in Durham.  She was a petite lady and her wardrobe was skirts, blouses and dresses, stockings and dress shoes.  Alfred Dunner was the brand she preferred.  At home it was housecoats and her Daniel Green slippers.  She loved house plants and had a green thumb   I believe she could make any puny plant flourish again.

Ma Haley, or Mrs. Georgia Haley as we called her, was a sweet little lady who Aunt Jennie lived with and was an extra special person in her life whom she loved dearly.  So there was Georgia and Virginia living in North Carolina.

As years passed and more life took its place, we were not able to see her as much as we wanted too.  She had lived in two different apartments in Durham and moved to a mobile home in the country next door to her brother and sister-in-law, KB and Jean Hill.

I loved my Aunt Jennie and she loved me.  She was a very special aunt to me, who I am honored to have called her, my Aunt Jennie.