Myrtle Rose Wiseman

Myrtle Wiseman Obituary

WISEMAN, MYRTLE ROSE

On Thursday, June 2, 2005 of Nottingham, MD. Wife of the late Gary Wiseman; beloved mother of Myrtle R. Taylor, Gary Wiseman (Lillian), Lucy Marr (Jerome), Alice Shaw (Donald), Claudia Jackson, Betty Clegg (Alton), Maggie Lee (Dudley) and Amelia Wiseman. Also survived by siblings Charles Holland, Margaret Walker, Lucille Blandford, Sadie Owens and a host of relatives and friends. Visitation for the late Mrs. Wiseman will be held on Thursday, June 9, 9 a.m. until services at 11:30 a.m. at the Union Bethel A.M.E. Church, Floral Park Rd., Brandywine, MD. Interment Resurrection Cemetery, Clinton, MD. Arrangements entrusted to ADAMS FUNERAL HOME, P.A., Aquasco, MD.

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Published by The Washington Post on Jun. 8, 2005.

Memories and Condolences
for Myrtle Wiseman

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Sydney Shaw

August 11, 2005

Summertime: For Myrtle Rose Wiseman

It was about fifteen minutes past midnight when I crept, from my bed, down the back stairs in my great-grandmother's riverside country house. I knew they were cooking something; the sweet aroma had risen, from the kitchen, through the floorboards and found its way into my sleeping nostrils, waking me--making me crave to be a part of the fussing and giggling that too rose from the kitchen. The aroma had made my mouth water even before my dream had stopped and my eyes opened.

At the bottom of the steps I turned the corner and peeked throught the area deemed by my family as the "Hum Ditty Room's" door and peered through to the kitchen where all of the midsummer night festivities were taking place. An unlabored moment with an aura of sweet languor filling the air all around the mother-daughter duo. My grandmother, and her mother, putting gingerly around in the middle of a pleasant summer night attempting to create what my great-grandmother (more endearingly known as Grama-Grama) had a hankering for--Zucchini Bread.

Ultimately, the two discovered me quietly snickering, in the Hum Ditty Room, at their boisterous yet playful antics and dragged the tickled-pink me out to assist in their cooking for Koo-Koos. Together we made the best Zucchini Cake (yes cake) that any of us had ever tasted--Come to think of it, I believe Grama-Grama was the only one of us who had ever tased a baked good that started with the word Zucchini in its name--and had an unforgettably fun time doing so.

In my life, as in the lives of many others, I have incurred many trials and tribulations. My ups have been pulled down and vice-versa, but through it all--my struggles and my achievements--there has always been one standout person that I could always run to. My paternal great-grandmother, Grama-Grama, has been a steady fountain of understanding, motivation, and wisdom--a constant voice of reason, encouragement, pride, morality, diligence, lightheartedness, love, and so much more. When I doubted my own abilities and felt the weight of the world crushing the hope out of my soul, my great-grandma was there; a rose, whose beautiful mind and soul shone clearly through the dark, pointed in the direction of serenity and care.

Grama-Grama's presence in my life has made me want to live...I meant to really live with gusto and a passion for experiencing the world and its inhabitants. She has instilled in me a thirst for knowledge and success, a strong will and great tenacity, a beliefe that I CAN and WILL do any and everything that I set my mind to, and a blazing compassion that binds my heart to the heart of every other existing spirit of the Earth. I was blessed with my great-grandmother for 17 years of my life and will be graced by the presence of her spirit and knowledge of her beautiful being forevermore.

In the anecdote that began this composition I was about 12 years old and the thought had never occured to me that I might, one day, not be able to go see my Grama-Grama and laugh about this and other times that we shared. My life has been greatly and positively influenced by that of my great-grandmother. I am so grateful that I, and oters, had the opportunity to be enchanted by the life of Grama-Grama. She was a Rose in a great and vast sea of thorns.

Thank you, Grama-Grama, for gracing my life with your love.

Charlotte Houston

August 8, 2005

I know her as a wonderful woman - through many conversations with my dear friend Peggy, her daughter.

My sincere condolences to her loving family.

Charlotte and John Houston

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