Cutters came to stay with my parents while recuperating from broken bones after a fall. As it turns out, she came back more than once from broken bones. Would you believe it was in the 90s of her lifetime, though? Truth.
100 years and still learning
My grandmother, Cutters, lived to be 101. Only the final year to 18-months was limited by physical constraints. Her years between 1977 to 2013 were lived independently within community after Granddaddy died May 1977. This original aging-in-place home support network she inspired, and to which she contributed, is but one of the blessings from Jessamine County to me.
Only a small number of times she needed assistance in recuperation and mobility. Her children, Phyllis & Herbert, took good care of Cutters, their Mother. The love shared in her family I can only hope to honor, in turn. I have learned to look for ways to live her lessons again. Practicing loving service to others. She loved Jesus.
In this image, Cutters is seated in a recliner with pillows reinforcing her resting collar bone and shoulder. She holds a 21st century mobile device in her Roman chiseled masterpiece of hands and somehow that irony works. In her other hand, she is connected by mouth to a red and white striped peppermint candy cane. In Burberry wrapped and earphones in full effect. To the uninitiated, I say sorry. That so many will never know how amazingly this woman’s life impacted others. Thankfully, I am one who witnessed and can relive stories with my own loved ones.
With her hands, she worked making food and a home for family, friends, homemakers and those in need. This included her elderly father in his widowed years. She prepared fresh-from-the-farm meals, with green beans, corn, tomatoes and more. With her hands, she endured. She held the dying body of her first born child.
Those hands have richer lives all their own, what stories they could tell and energy they emit even now only in a photograph. And, the typing fingers of those same hands would let you know in no uncertain terms if she did not approve of something you shared on Facebook. Yes, she was active on Facebook. And that was also after she was 90yo.
that Kentucky girl 