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| LILIAS MARY FRASER PUNNETT, March 30, 1882 - September 6, 1970 |
Granny Lil was a wonderful person. She had a way of letting each of us feel we were special. She would give us money, with the admonition that it was to be spent on ice cream. But she gave us each at different times and for different things – if you did well at school work, it might be for ‘coming first’; if you were a runner, it would be for running a great race; if you were artistic, it was for completing a picture … and so on. It taught me to always look for what my family does that is special. All of us are different, and Granny recognised the importance of that. Her blindness was in ways a gift – we used to try to ‘fool’ her by tiptoeing up to see if she could guess who it was – one touch and she always knew! I also used to read to her and Auntie Maizie and Pop, and she loved it, because she missed being able to read herself. Dad would read her poetry, I guess that’s what gave me the idea. She always wanted to die with the boys around her, and, as I remember Langley, Chris, and Duncan were in the room with her. I think Jack was away, but I could be wrong, it’s a long time ago. She was definitely the epitome of the matriarch!
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| “MAYSIE" MARY BARBARA PUNNETT, September 30, 1882 - December 18, 1979 |
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How interesting, Betty Jane, no wonder Granny Lil is remembered with such respect. I remember Auntie Maysie, living in the garden room to the right of the staircase at Cane Grove, crocheting beautiful pieces in spite of her blindness.
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