So I shared her photo on facebook.
- Jennene Lammi When I was a little girl and my Mother had to return to work as a nurse, I would have to walk down to Beulah and Vera's home to be looked after for the afternoon. Both Beulah and Vera were sisters who never married but chose to live together for the rest of their lives and take care of one another.
Jennene Lammi Beulah would paint, play the piano (which she taught me for some time), bake, knit, crochet, embroider, read and do some gardening.- Jennene Lammi She was an articulate woman who held her back straight and had impeccable manners. She spoke with precision and used correct grammar at all times. She was very educated and continued to read and read and read until she could no longer. Her knowledge of the gospel was unmeasurable.
- Jennene Lammi I remember though that she was scared to death of storms and when a storm was approaching, my Mother would walk down the street to where she and Vera lived and would sit with her until it passed.
- Jennene Lammi In her later days when she was very weak and sick and after Vera had passed on , my Mother would go down to her and take her nightly meal and bathe her. Beulah was indeed grateful for Mum to do this as you can imagine, she was a woman of dignity.
Jennene Lammi When my baby Son Sam died, she was one of the last to come into me while we had a viewing. She walked over with tears in her eyes and held my hand, nothing was said, nothing had to be said. She just stood there and I could feel the heartache in her heart for me. I quietly hugged her and told her that everything will alright.- Jennene Lammi Vera was the gardener. Look at those sunflowers that are behind her. She loved sunflowers, and at her funeral I believed they were placed on her coffin.
- Jennene Lammi I miss you Vera, I miss that little green mini you used to take me to primary in and the door would fly open while going around the corner. Deaths door was upon me every Thursday afternoon and many a driver would be beeping their horns at her telling her to move onto her side of the road.
- Jennene Lammi I miss that brown bread you made, I can still smell it. I miss the clothes you made for me. I miss the cumquorts, the custard apples, the dew dews. I miss that big old copper bath and the sunlight soap you bathed me in. I miss that big old bed with the homemade quilts on it.
- Jennene Lammi Kylie Groundwater-Bryde, remember the rabbit heads she made out of paper mache and we won the parade in which we wore them.
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- Jennene Lammi Vera was also a gorgeous little lady who had a heart of gold. She would mother me and I just lapped it up. I remember when Mum and Dad went away on assignments both Vera and Beulah would have me down for tea and it was like they waited on me hand and foot. Both main course and desert was served.
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