Shirley Payne Cox

My cousin Shirley was always my idol. She was older than I and I always looked up to her because I thought she was so beautiful and smart -- and I wanted to be just like her when I grew up. I was the flower girl in her wedding and I felt so grown-up because she treated me just like her other attendants. I regret not being closer to her as an adult but the last time I did see her, I thought she was just like I always remembered her to be -- one of the sweetest persons anywhere and still the...