Friday, June 13, 2014

Great Aunt Minnie Keeps on Giving

At a family party recently, one of my aunts took me aside to say she had something very important to give to my sister and me. This was the aunt for was the executor of Great Aunt Minnie's estate. And sure enough, there turned out to be some additional inheritance funds coming to us! My aunt had finally rolled all the coins that Minnie had kept in a jar, and after taking them to the bank, there must have been about $30. My aunt handed me a little envelope with my sister's and my name on it, and inside there were two silver dollars (the old ones with JFK in them) and 3 dollar bills. My sister and I each kept 1 coin, and I let her have 2 of the dollar bills, since neither of us had change... And, well, she's got a family to support and all...


I have the envelope in my underwear drawer at the moment-- not that there's any particular reason to keep it there, but it happened to be where Sweetie put it to get it out of the way one day. It makes me smile when I see it every morning, thinking about my wonderful great aunt, who would have turned 100 just a few days ago...
More on my inheritance from Great Aunt Minnie in his post:

2 comments:

T'Pol said...

Your aunt must be a sweetheart. After all it was only 30 bucks change. What a thoughtful, nice lady...

Anonymous said...

Wow she keeps surprising from heaven :-) I'm sure you and your sister had so many great memories of your great-aunt and will have many stories to always remember her kindness.

BTW you've been missed around here. Don't be a stranger.