Cheri
Jan, My Big Sister,
With the thirteen years age difference between us, my childhood memories are few. Most of my memories of you begun after you had all ready left home in Michigan.
However, I was so proud to be able to say I had a big sister who now lived in California. In my mind you were a Hollywood star. I always admired everything about you from your mannerisms, your expressive hands, your haircuts. You were so beautiful to me and I wanted to be and look just like you. Even at one point while I was in high school, cutting my very long hair to look like your then stylish cut of what was called a DA. Oh how shocked I was when you came home and I showed off my then short hair to see you no longer had short hair. 🤦‍♀️
I remember you as always being a very strong woman, self confident, articulate, self assured with always being able to take control of any situation. It seemed like you always had a sense of what needed to be done, how to do it and then took care of things.
When you had your son, I was so proud to tell my high school friends I was and Aunt…..
I remember how much you cherished your baby. You were such a devoted mother, protecting him, teaching him and you loved him with a heart so big it seemed that the only thing others could see when looking at you was a huge heart of love for him.
I remember with a big smile, the time I was visiting you in Florida, in the 1980s. I finally talked you into getting rid of that bee hive hairdo you had and cutting it into a stylish twenty century style. LOL
How we sat in the salon and laughed and laughed, while you threatening me saying “you were going to kill me for talking you into this. LOL . We laughed and I told you, you couldn’t because you had someone standing over you with the scissors, we laughed a lot. A cherished bonding time that I had always wanted and waited so long for. So a precious memory indeed. FINALLY!!!
Life took it’s toll and distance kept us apart, but in my mind as always I had a “Big sister”,
a sister who I grieved not having in my life as I wanted. Who I always admired and always loved
To all those who read. Please take seriously where your eternity will be. There are no do overs.
“ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
“ Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:6
“ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourself, it is a gift of God.” Ephesians 2:8.
Rest In Peace, Big Sister,
Always loved,
Cheri