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Mildred Norton Poole
1930 - 2019
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Hey! Happy birthday!! I love you so very much. I miss you so very much. I saw you in a dream. I actually went back to bed for a little bit before work because I wanted you to come back, but you didn’t. I really miss you. I really wish I could hug you and feel your arms around me again. You are always my best friend. I love you so much. Love, Me
Hey. Happy birthday, Granny! Normally, tonight, I’d be trying to bake that German Chocolate Cake you love or making sure an order for some crazy dollar amount of cupcakes were made because it was an assortment. Remember that birthday at Ryan’s? I think it was $30 per 12 cupcakes back then because I got to pick different ones out and there was nothing I wouldn’t pay for you so I got them and reserved the carrot cake and red velvet for you to have. I don’t think they had German Chocolate, but if they did I would have reserved it for you.
It’s been a tough year, and if I ever hid any surgeries or conditions from you in the past it wasn’t because I wanted to be dishonest or disrespectful to you. I just never wanted you to worry about me and know that I was going to be okay. I really haven’t been for a while, and I miss you so very much. My heart is broken and it’s not because of anything you did. You didn’t do anything wrong at all. You were the best grandmother and friend anyone could ask for. I just have been missing you a great deal and it’s very hard for me to talk about, because I miss our adventures together and our laughs, our everyday conversations, picking you up lunch when I was in your area for training. I can say I had the best grandmother ever. That is something I am so proud of and that was you.
I ride around with a picture of you in my car because I miss you. It’s the one taken from my graduation from graduate school when I became a counselor. I think you have my cap and my hood on and I took your picture because every time I graduated, you graduated too. I always talked to you between classes to tell you about them and you learned so much from them too. I was always so proud of you. Please say hey to Granddaddy and everyone else. Tell them I love them. Hold “A” tight. I love you so much and have a great birthday. ❤️❤️❤️
Love,
Toni
Happy Heavenly Birthday, Granny Poole. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t miss you. I love you so much. I wished that I could have taken all your pain away from you and somehow made everything better. I hope you are having a great birthday in Heaven with your sisters, and keeping Granddaddy on the straight and narrow.
You were always my very best friend. I miss our talks, our trips, our laughs together. I miss when we would get creative and do artwork together. I’ve started painting. I attached a photo of a tree I painted for you. I feel that you’ve given me inspiration to do so, I just hope that I live up to your amazing abilities, which will be a challenge. I wish you had gotten to know your great grandchildren, Cyrus and Cadence. I really believe you would have loved them so much. They are so funny, silly, smart and love doing crafts just like we did together. I know, without a doubt they would have loved you. I tell Cadence stories of you cooking and making pillows, quilts, ceramics, and all sorts of things. I was actually recently given a quilt you did for my other grandmother when she passed on February 20 of this year. It’s something special to me as one grandmother created it for another. It’s still beautiful and perfect. Please say hi to my other Grandmother when you see her and let her know I loved her and miss her as well.
Back to Cyrus and Cadence, both her and her brother love art and are very good at it. I love doing art with them. I think of you when we get the opportunity. I wish I was able to have given you a great-grandchild. I know you would have loved her or him.
I hope you have a wonderful day in Heaven and you check in on us once in a while, because we do still need your guidance and miss you more than, I would ever believe is possible.
You were always an amazing grandmother and best friend. My best friend forever. I love you and will love you forever. Happy birthday and know I always think of you and I hold you in my heart. Please don’t every think or forget I don’t think about you, because not a day goes by when I don’t. You were and are a wonderful Granny and the best friend I could have ever asked for in my entire life and NO ONE can ever replace you in my heart.
Even though you had Alzheimer’s, you could always place your hand on my face and look into my eyes and it was like you knew when you stroked my face, you knew I would do anything for you, and do anything I could for you. You never showed me fear, raised your voice with me or showed aggression and I think it was because on some level, you could see in my eyes who I was and I loved you with everything I had in me.
I love you. Happy birthday. Show me a sign you are around sometime. I miss you.
Love,
Toni
Granny,
I miss you more and more every single day. I miss the way your eyes lit up when I talked to you and sat beside you. I miss being able to talk to you about anything and everything before you got sick. I miss our trips to Charleston all the time, the laughter and silliness we got into together, and overall fun we had together. You were and will always be the greatest person, most good hearted person, and without a doubt most selfless person I have ever known. I struggle to understand why such a horrible and crippling disease would happen to such a wonderful and beautiful human being. You were always my angel.
I know it was time for you to go, and it’s so selfish of me to want you back here with us, especially since you were suffering. I’d give my life for just 10 minutes with you not suffering, happy, healthy, and back to your old self again just to tell you I love you and you are and will always be my best friend no matter what. You had the best heart and have the best soul, the purest. I wish I could have taken away all your suffering. I would have done it in a second. I never wanted you to feel confused, scared, out of place, not know where you were, lost, or unfamiliar with anyone.
I hope you are looking upon us all and you are completely healed, know you are in Heaven, see your sisters, your brother, and Granddaddy. I hope Heaven is as beautiful as you are, if not, I’m sure you can fix it up with your beautiful quilting, sewing, painting, and many arts and crafts skills. I hope you feel at home.
Know, it will take a long time, because sometimes grief does, and it’s a cycle, but we will be okay and I will take care of Mom. I think we both lost a piece of our heart the day you passed, but the pieces will go back together. Just know we sent a piece with you and you are in our hearts forever. I promised you the day before your passing, as well as the day of, it was okay to go, and I wouldn’t and couldn’t be mad and I promise you, I’m not mad now. I’m grateful you aren’t suffering anymore and no longer in pain. I just miss you so very much. The best, funniest, and most fun memories of my life have been with you. I will cherish them as long as I live. Thank you for those memories and loving me so much.
I love you so much. I could never express how much I love you. You are, without a doubt, the most amazing person ever. Thank you for accepting me as me and playing along with my silly antics like trying on hats in Belk with me and going to Red Lobster all the time and watching me joke around with shrimp tails. I always would do anything to make you laugh. It was the best sound in the world. I miss it.
I love you forever and ever. Love you too, Toni
I love you more than anything in this world, Granny. I miss you so very much. You are and will always be in my happiest memories and will always be my best friend. You are an amazing grandmother and the best anyone could ever hope for to have in their life. Thank you for sharing your life with me. Thank you for all the times of laughter, traveling with me, talks on the phone all the time, and the silly times we had together. I will forever love you and keep you in my heart. Love, Toni
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