Tuesday, June 27, 2023
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When I was little I remember Mid and Art coming home on weekends from Harrisburg for family picnics or family get togethers. I always thought they were so up in the world since they did lots of traveling like Hawaii and they'd go to Florida to the beaches!
They were the world travelers in my little mind!
Then Aunt Mid and Uncle Art invited me to live with them back in 1981, when I was transferred to work in a nursing home in the Harrisburg area. I was only 5 months out of college and was able to live at home with my parents until I was transferred with my company. My boyfriend popped the question to ask me to marry him after me being gone from home for 3 weeks, so I was able to live with them for six months prior to getting married and moving to KS. (Aunt Mid and Uncle Art lived in Harrisburg, PA back then.) What a wonderful time this was. Aunt Mid helped me do things for my wedding and Uncle Art was always going to the horse races, golfing or checking on many of his interests that I had no idea what all he was doing. He took Mid on many trips to great places. Since they never had children of their own, they treated us nieces and nephews as their own-well me anyway! I will never forget the security they provided for me as a young, naive lady just out of college and never having lived away from Indiana County. Art never had much to say but kind of like when EF Hutton speaks, you listen, same was true with Uncle Art.
He demonstrated a dry sense of humor and was pretty easy going. Art was my last uncle/aunt to pass. It's a weird feeling knowing none of my aunts and uncles are still here. Perhaps that means I am old now!
Thank you Uncle Art for opening your home for me to have a place to live and save money before I got married. They wouldn't allow me to pay them for my room there. If I remember, however, I gave them cash every month to say thank you. Then when I got married it all came back to me in a card! Plus all the help they gave me with the wedding plans!
When I had our first daughter, Art allowed Mid to travel with her sister, my mom, to Kansas to help me with a very tiny premie. What a great two weeks that was.
Just like my big brother Ken, when I would call after I moved to KS, generally Uncle Art would answer the phone and say " Millie, it's Karen calling from Kansas". I always had to laugh because I felt like I was calling from Australia or some place far away.
It is very different now knowing all my aunts and uncles are gone!
