My Great Aunt Lillian died this past Wednesday and her funeral was this morning in Sour Lake. We always called her Aunt Nuna...which was her nickname as a child. She was my mom's aunt and my Grandmother (Grammy's) sister. She lived to be 91 years old and still walked her dog around her neighborhood twice a day. I hope I have as much energy as her when I am that age. The funeral was beautiful and she will be greatly missed.
Mom and I rode with Grammy to the funeral and afterwards we were talking about the house where Grammy and her siblings were born and raised. I mentioned that I had never seen the house, which is in downtown Beaumont, so we decided to drive by and see the lot where it use to be. The house was actually torn down years ago and the lot cleared.
The house was on Shamrock road in Beaumont
This is the lot where my Great Grandparents house use to be. Grammy and Mom described it to me as a simple white house with a front porch. Grammy and all her siblings were born in the house. My Great Grandfather died when my mom was very young and my Great Grandmother lived in the house until she moved into a nursing home later in her life. I remember going to the nursing home when I was little with Grammy to visit my Great Grandmother. I also remember us sneaking in M&M's to give to her since they didn't give her any candy and me feeding them to her.
My Mom has many memories of staying here with her Grandmother during the summers when Grammy had to work. She remembers how her Grandmother would get her and her brothers all dressed up and they would walk downtown to get ice cream. How times have changed....I can't even imagine getting all dressed up just to go get an ice cream cone. I really wish the house was still there and that I could have seen it, but it was still a neat experience to get to see where my Great Grandparents lived.
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