Gabriel Perry
Grandma was, well... She was indescribably tough. She was a great role model, wife, aunt, grandmother, mother, friend, sister that anyone could ever imagine. She was my grandmother... She taught me many things, shared amazing stories, sang old, but catchy songs, talked a lot about George the squirrel and his wife, Susan and their two children. She also was the one who taught me about staying away from strangers and why it is important never to get into a stranger's car. She sang me lullabies, told me jokes, and had the silliest laugh that could just make you giggle until you couldn't breathe. I loved her smile, her rough hugs, the fact that nothing could make her have a bad day, her hair, in which would change styles every day, her love in Christianity inspired me to work towards my dreams in becoming an engineer, robotics specialist, giving me ideas as to how I could shape the future with the things I could invent. I loved how she loved singing The Munsters theme song, how she would sing You Are My Sunshine and many different songs. She was VERY musical. Also, very intelligent. I remember watching many old tapes on a projector of her and when she was young and I also remember when I saw my great grandpa Charlie sitting on a couch that is in our house to this day and he was also dancing in a few of the films. My grandmother was a very neat and titey woman and was always active. On the day of her funeral, I went up the the microphone in the front of the church and my father went with me and then I read my poem of her leaving life and going to heaven. Being only ten years old while writing my poem, I didn't put of high intellect words into the poem, but if I were a bit older, I probably would have wrote a chapter book about it and read it to the gathering, and published it later on in life. I've already wrote many pieces about my grandmother after her passing and how and what she was like and what she did. Many say that it was an unknown cost as to how she got sick on April fifth of 2013. She just had a sore throat and said she was just gonna rest for a little while that day, but the next day, she passed for about five minutes before my dad, luckily knowing CPR, came just on time to save her life. She spent about two months in St. Joseph's Hospital and about three months in Loretto, which is a nursing home. I can still remember talking to her in the hospital and she was not moving or speaking. She was in bad condition. After she was well enough, she was moved to Loretto. Oh, I can remember that like it was yesterday. I remember the bed she stayed in, I can remember her being afraid of... You know... Passing. This was because the lady next door loved talking to Grandma and then, about the first two weeks the lady next door had passed and that was why my grandma was afraid of passing. Although, when my grandfather went outside with my grandmother at Loretto, she would always be watching the sunset with him. This made me happy to see that even after forty-six years a marriage that strong could not be broken. When we would all go outside under the gazebo at Loretto, I would ask my grandma questions about how happy she was to still be alive and with her family, she would simply just sigh, and smile and not answer and just look up at what seemed to be nothing, but she smiled at the sky. Like I said before, I was only ten, so I couldn't understand as to why she would smile at such a boring, bland, plain blue sky and smile. Now, I know. It wasn't a mystery as to how my grandmother passed, when she was smiling at the sky, God was giving her an early greeting to her soon to be forever home. Heaven. Now, Grandma, if you can read this, just know that your little angel will forever be with me, sitting right on my nightstand where you had told me that one day you won't be with me, and that day came about three years ago. So just know that I will always love you. With all of the love in the entire universe, your grandson, Gabriel Charles Perry
