Tuesday, December 29, 2015
An aura of positive energy surrounded Aunt Winnie every time I saw her, and it was highly contagious! What a fabulous woman: intelligent, sophisticated, full of knowledge, honest, straightforward and overflowing with love and good humor. I remember her being "down" only once in the 75 years I've known her (I think she held me in her arms soon after I was born at Heiskell Memorial Hospital in 1940), and that was on her 85th Birthday: I called her in the mid-morning to wish her "Happy Birthday!" and detected a sadness in her voice. When I asked her if anything were wrong, she quietly explained her troubles: "Oh, Hiker... those Mountaineers...lost last night." She had gone to the Coliseum the night before, and her alma mater couldn't pull out a victory. What a fan! WVU had no finer! Her spirit will abide in us and will perpetually be a source of remembrances that will make us break into smiles and outright laughter
