What a Way to Go

My Aunt Hazel was awesome.  She raised 11 of her own children, and found time to help raise me, and my three siblings, and baby sit for others.  

A lot of kids in the Wann, Oklahoma area are what they are today, because of my Aunt Hazel.  She loved to cook.  She told me several times, that she always wanted to run a small restaraunt.  When all of her children were grown, and she was living alone we would stop by to visit and check on her.  She would be cooking for herself, and as soon as we walked in the door, she would start adding to what she was preparing.  Somehow, she managed to make a meal for one, into a meal for the masses.  Kind of like a "Loaves and Fishes" kind of thing.

She was at my cousin's home, getting ready for a holiday.  I believe it was Thanksgiving, but I don't believe that is important.  Anyway, she was had finished baking, and started carrying the meal to the car, to carry it to the home of another of her children.  

After a trip to the car, she returned to the house, and told her daughter that she was tired and needed to rest for a minute.  She layed down on the couch, and went to sleep.  That short nap turned out to be the "Big Sleep".

When I was told this story, I asked where the line formed to sign up for this deal.  I can think of no better way to leave this life, than to be doing the thing you love, lay down to take a break, and just pass on.  I loved my Aunt Hazel, and hope to follow her lead on the way to go.