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HELEN BARLOW Obituary
This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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Tachele Myers
December 28, 2018
Dear Aunt Helen,
I only met you once when my mom, brothers, and I came out to your house in Virginia in the early 1990's after my dad (Bernard) died in 1991. I was 9 at the oldest. I remember you bringing me over to meet Grandma Madison... I remember Grandma's house being on the same property as yours and one whole wall being a beehive... the walls literally leaking honey. I remember going over to one of your children's homes, playing with my cousins, and a man grabbing me at the pressure point on my wrist, dropping me to my knees. I remember watching "The Apple Dumpling Gang", "Old Yeller", "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" at your house, the first exposure to these old classic Disney movies. I remember sitting at your dining room table eating blue gill and not realizing that these fish had bones in them until I choked on one.... It was obviously worth remembering if 20+ years later I can recall memories of the few days we got to spend with you that summer. I hadn't realized you passed on until my youngest brother did an Ancestry DNA thing and I started building our family tree.
I wish I would have grown up closer instead of in Nebraska. I could have gotten to know you so much better than those few cherished memories that summer. I could have gotten to hear more about my dad, Aunt Ethel, Uncle Lewis... my family.
Space kept us from knowing each other better. Time has made me want to know more.
I may have met you and Uncle Clyde only that once, but I've loved you ever since.
Tachele (Madison) Myers
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