Ethels remains

 Shoes and shawl that Ethel wore

John Clare Stokes

I like the song Tom T Hall sang on his Songs from Sopchoppy album, Shoes and dress that Alice wore. Several years back, my cousin from Mississippi, Jeanne Bradford Rowland, gifted me with her mother and my fathers mother  size 4 shoes, her shawl, dress gloves and a braided lock of her auburn hair. We never knew Ethel Marie Wike, born Jan 28, 1899 and who died sadly on August 1, 1937 at their home in Homewood, Mississippi. My father was only 14 and Aunt Esther Irene 11. Recently the shadow box the items were in was broken by the cats. Yesterday the new and deeper shadow box arrived. I am grateful to Jeanne for keeping her memory alive.