Victoria Warley Perkins

Aunt Vic was my great auntie and my Godmother. I flew to Florida after my HS graduation to visit with her, my uncle Ernie, Trudy and then little Christi. Although I never got a chance to fly back from California to visit again, aunt Vic was and ALWAYS will remain a very special part of me. I truly loved her with all of my heart and she will be dearly missed by me, my 2 children Curtis & Che'ana, her nephew Gregory Lee and niece, Janet. (My father was her only sister Margarets' son)
Forever in my heart.

Christi's grandma was a special lady. Always sharp, funny and sweet. She seemed to appreciate the little things in life more than our generation / society does today. That was admirable. Christi, I know how close you and your mom were to Grandma Victoria, so I know how bad this must hurt, like losing a parent. I'm sorry. So sorry for your loss and pain. If there's anything I can do just let me know. Just remember that she's in a better place with other loved ones and God's given her lots of peace now. My prayers are with you and your mom. Love you.

This is the video tribute that I created (compiled/recorded/edited) @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi3slLTcTtk for my 96 year old grandma Victoria Perkins, daughter of the famous William Warley, who won the historical case of Buchanan v. Warley in 1917 (the year of Grandma's birth), in which the Court addressed civil government instituted racial segregation in residential areas.

The Court held that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real property to blacks violated the Fourteenth Amendment, which protected freedom of contract, reversing the ruling of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Unlike prior state court rulings that had overturned racial zoning ordinances on takings clause grounds due to those ordinances' failures to grandfather land owned prior to enactment, the Court in Buchanan ruled that the motive for the Louisville ordinance, race, was an insufficient purpose to make the prohibition constitutional.

Grandma was named Victoria in honor of her father's victory in this major court case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchanan_v._Warley - Read or watch my mom's Eulogy for grandma, when I post it soon, to learn more.

I played this video for grandma's service to celebrate her life, at The Altamonte Chapel on Sunday, August 3rd, 2014. The male voice whom you hear me speaking in conversation with over the phone is my cousin Oji, who is the son of my mother's brother, Warley.

My mom only had two siblings, both were brothers, Grandma's eldest child, Ernie Junior (The 2nd), and Grandma's youngest child, Warley, who are both now deceased, leaving mom the only last living bloodline of her immediate family, because our World War 2 military veteran, grandpa Ernest Perkins Senior, died in 2000, after 56 years of loyal, faithful, happy marriage with grandma. They would have been married 70 years, if he lived as long as she did.

Uncle Ernie had 3 kids, (Ernie 3rd, Moriah and Rachel), who are also grandma Victoria's grand children, in addition to me, Oji and Oji's sister Nanonte, who left a loving tribute to grandma on her online obit page by Baldwin Fairchild @ Dignity Memorial.

Thank you Oji and Nanonte for caring so much about your grandmother, as do I, with your loving, thoughtful tributes.

She loved all of us. All of her 3 kids, all of her 6 grand kids, and all her great grand kids, both the ones she got to meet (from her son Warley's side), and even the great grand kids who she never got to meet (from her son Ernie's side)-- She loved them all very much.

I'm a chaste only child with no kids, so Victoria's future great grand kids by me (from her daughter Trudy's side) will never have the chance to meet grandma, this woman who had such an impact on my life the most, face to face. This saddens me, but I tried to make a tribute video that they will surely remember her by: http://youtu.be/xi3slLTcTtk - to know her via both photos and the video footage I took of her that I will also be editing together for a separate post-funeral cyber tribute video, later this month.

To download this video tribute, please go to http://archive.org/details/QueenVTributePhotos

If you haven't already, please share your tribute to Mom, Grandma, Great Grandma - Queen Victoria @ www.TinyUrl.com/ripQueenV and www.ForeverMissed.com/QueenV and https://www.facebook.com/events/550233315082998 - Thanks! ?

I would like to send my condolences. I'm so sorry for your loss. Stay strong.

Aunt Vic, you will be missed. I will always remember your love, your smile and devotion. I thank God for you. Trudy and Christi stay strong and true.

T. & Christi, please know our thoughts are with you and your family at this time. May you continue to cherish the beautiful memories of your mother and grandmother. God is with you, providing love, comfort, peace and understanding. May God continue to bless you.

My grand mother has gone home. God bless her

God Bless Victoria Perkins...