Showing posts with label obit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obit. Show all posts

8.31.2008

confronted with mortality that is not your own

Out of curiosity, do you ever do a google search of your own name? When I did an image search of Letha, I got this:



Which is pretty much the BEST find EVER.

But then I did a name search, just a regular google and I found this link: RootsWeb: WORLD-OBITS-L JONES; Letha-11/7/2005>USA/AZ--obits ...
ago with her niece. She leaves behind one sister, Mary Scrivner Sanders of Albuquerque, NM and numerous nephews, nieces and cousins. Letha was preceded ...
listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/WORLD-OBITS/2005-09/1125785822 - 4k -

...that's my great aunt. I was named after her. And the Mary Scrivner mentioned is my grandmother, after whom my little sister was named.
It's weird, finding something like that. I miss her.