Friday, September 23, 2011
NO ONE in the world ever had an Aunt Peg like my Aunt Peg and that's the truth. The perpetually slightly nervous wreck, always laughing, always caring, always loving, always a gentle soul. She was quick to feed you, get into mischief with you, hug you, play the piano for you, slip FIVE DOLLARS into your pocket and on St. Patrick's Day, do a mean jig for you. She was the perfect compliment to my Uncle Bob; a perfect matched set of bookends flanking Nancy, Janet and Lil Peggy. I will never forget her Thanksgiving dinners, the emerald green car we rode in WITH the radio going and the top off. She is the one that first introduced me to CHEESE burgers and Uncle Bob the first to introduce me to a new restaurant called McDonalds where not only could I get my beloved cheeseburger but have my first taste of onions all while eating it in the car! Aunt Peg and Uncle Bob had the first color TV, COLOR home movies of a rose opening in their greenhouse, ducks, their own riding train on TRACKS in the back yard, a garage opener that us kids used to jump up and down on to trigger the door open and closed again. And OH the Easter egg hunts while we were all dressed up in dresses that itched and were scratchy but I suppose made us all look like we really weren't the tom boys some of us really were. I loved you, Aunt Peg. You and Uncle Bob made being a child in your home magical. Why else would Jan and I BEG you to let me stay overnight any time we were together? I will miss you, Aunt Peg but you and Uncle Bob and the girls are never far from my heart. Rest in peace... Elaine
