The Shemwell Family

Misc: Nannie Lucile Pulley Harris was my grandmother. The mother of my dad. Some of my fondest me mories of her are: Everytime we would visit her, when we walked in the door my brother Nick a nd I would yell " Grandmother" and from the back of the house we would hear her respond wit h Woo Hoo. We would giggle and run back to the kitchen for a hug we knew was waiting. Whe n we were small she had a parokeete names Pete and we would spend hours trying to get him t o talk. Grandmother was gray by the time she was 19, at least that is what she told me. Sh e had this rinse she put on her hair to keep it from turning the yellow some gray does, and s he would go around with purple hair for awhile. She was also always imaculate in her appeare nce. I can not remember ever seeing her without every hair in place and dressed nicely. Sh e was a very indapendant woman. Also she kept her weddings form my grandfather Edwarn Nathan ial Harris and did not remarry until after he passed away. At the cemetery she laid the ring s on top of his grave. She remarried once after that but it was too late, she was to indapen dent to put up with anyone trying to tell her how to do things. The worst thing that could o f happened to her did, She got Alzeheimers. She had to be put in a home because she would w alk out of the house when you were not watching then you had to go find her and hope she wa y ok. At the home they let her skin care and her hair go. I remember her soft skin as I wa s growing up, they let it get dry. Then she got bedsores on her leg and got gangerine and sh e had to have her leg removed.