Remembering Janice

Janice Faye Fortenberry Jackson:

Today would have been my Mama's baby sister's birthday. 

Janice was Grandma Nadine's baby daughter.  Grandma and Grandaddy doted on her.  She got sick her senior in high school with what they thought was rheumatic fever but later on in years, it was found that she had lupus, and that ruled the way that she lived her life.  She married Frank, and they had one child, a son, Kevin, whom was her life.  Many of my teenaged years, I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time at Janice's house.  She made the best mashed potatoes and creamed style corn and of course old fashioned egg pie that I ever tasted.  She died at the age of 38, too young, when Kevin was only sixteen.  She never got to see her son grow up and become a man.  As the mother of sons, I hate that for her.  Now, she has two beautiful granddaughters that she never got to meet.  She would be so proud of the man, the husband, the daddy her son has become. 

Sweet Janice - you are still missed.