I Would like to share a very touching story about my Aunt Norma. I spent the night with her and Uncle Don and it got to be real late and she asked me if I would hang a shelf on her bedroom wall for her and of course I did anything she asked of me. I can still see my Uncle Don laying in bed all covered up and my Aunt Norma laying long ways on the foot of the bed resting up against his legs to support her just smiling at me from ear to ear. I told her that I wasn't very good at hanging shelves that took more then one nail and she said she knew I could do it because I had a knack for decorating. I told her it was almost midnight and did she really want me doing that at that hour and she said yes, she didn't care. I couldn't believe it but I hung that shelf perfectly straight and secure on her wall. It was a birdhouse shelf that her niece Linda Finton had bought for her and it was of a birdhouse design. Aunt Norma loved birds of all kinds and towards the end she was especially fond of Hummingbirds. The very last time that I saw her before she passed away my sister Shirley & I were sitting out on her beautiful deck that her family had built for her and their dad and we watched three Hummingbirds at a Hummingbird feeder. They were fluttering from the feeder to a big tree in their yard close by. It was the first time that I had ever really seen Hummingbirds and to this day because of that I love Hummingbirds and so does my sister Shirley. What amazing little birds they are! I think my Aunt had a feeling she wasn't going to live until August 27th which was my 52nd Birthday and she had my Birthday presents there for me to open at the end of June. She & her daughter [my cousin] Wilma already had my Birthday there for me. I sat there on her deck and opened many precious gifts from her & Wilma which I'll never forget. What a beautiful memory of the very last time that I saw my Aunt Norma. They gave me a very special precious moments picture for my Birthday and my Aunt Norma signed the back of it for me. It hangs on my front room wall with special picture's and precious moments in her memory. I'll always remember sitting there and watching her smile at the Hummingbirds with her arms folded on her stomach. She was one of those rare people that stood out in a crowd. I never once heard her say a mean thing about anybody. She had more company then anyone I ever saw. Her love and gentle spirit drew people to her. I am honored to have had her in my life. She didn't just care about me she loved my whole family which meant so much to me. If she didn't hear from me every other day she worried that I might be sick. We were that close. A song comes to mind when I think about the kind of woman that she was. The song "God must have spent a little more time when he made Norma". I'll never know anyone like her again. I used to spoil her by taking her gifts because I just loved her so much and I loved seeing her so excited when she opened her presents from me. She'd say " Marge, I oughta turn you over my knee and paddle your butt" and we'd both laugh. She once told me that I didn't have to buy her things to make her love me. I told her that I had her love years ago and she said "That's right"! We could talk about anything and knew it'd stay just between the two of us. We cried on each others shoulders alot when we lost her Mother [my Grandmother] Delphine Phillips. Aunt Norma understood the pain I felt with losing both of my parents as a young girl. She & my dad were very close and for years she would stay in bed when his Birthday came around Oct. 23rd. She told her kid's she'd give anything to have had one more day with him and I would give anything to have just one more day with her. I love my Aunt Norma & Uncle Don's family. Their one of the closest family's I've ever seen. Aunt Norma & Uncle Don held hands all the time just as my husband John & I do. We're alot like my Aunt Norma & Uncle Don in so many way's. Norma & I had the same morals & value's and our family's are everything to us. I'm sure that my Aunt Norma & Uncle Don are in heaven holding hands right now planning Don's 72nd Birthday together once again. May they rest in peace forever more.