I really hoped my scanner would be fixed for this blog but sadly I need software that I don't have. So my pictures a a little blurry because they are pictures of pictures, SORRY!
On to my blog
My Grandma was the most generous, funny, caring, and altogether awesome person you could ever meet. I feel like a lot of who I am came from her. She was crafty, a great mom, and she could laugh at just about anything. She was a strong woman! She beat cancer and the doctors told us she was going to die several times but boy did that woman have a will to live!
Here is a cool story about my Grandma... She was in ICU and during the night she crashed. The doctors literally had to bring in the crash cart. When we(me, my mom, and my aunt) arrived that morning she told us that she saw Jesus. Her eyes poured forth an excitement that told the story far better than words could tell! She said that she and Jesus had walked the halls of the hospital (she had been bed ridden for a year) She said He told her to come with him and he would set her free! Then she was in heaven and she described things that the bible talks about. Like the glass sea and the pearly gates. She also said that there was music that was so beautiful she could not describe it. She had never heard anything that beautiful here on earth. She said Jesus called her my child. ( I giggle as I type this because I can remember her telling it so clearly) He said "My child come sit upon my knee for I have much to tell thee" Oh my...See my Grandma didn't talk this way that is why it is so funny. She had not attended church regularly for many years (but she was saved) she didn't read her bible either. I know that many things she described she had not read about. To give you an example of my Grandma her love name for me was "little shit-ass" yes that's right her love name. My Grandma was great! LOL! Back to her story, She told Jesus she was not ready to leave earth and He told her that when she was ready He would have a "chair" waiting for her. Chair was her word and I don't recall anything I have read that talks about your chair in heaven but that's what Jesus told her.
NOW I don't know your opinion on near death experiences but I do know by her smile, her eyes, and the words she used that this really happened to my Grandma that night. She lived almost a year to the day after this took place!
After she met Jesus that night she was different. It was like she wanted to soak up everything about God that she could. She had us get her a large print Bible and she would watch preaching every night when she went to bed.
Now I want you to read her Obit.
Bernice Bell Elliott, 87, of Amarillo died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003.
Mrs. Elliott was born June 23, 1915, in Aberdeen, to John Henry and Mattie Gertrude Bryant. She married Chester Floyd Elliott in 1931 in Tucumcari, N.M. She was a homemaker, loved to make dolls, and most of all, she loved her husband, children and grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two sons, Jerry Elliott in 1961; and Larry Elliott in 1969.
Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Sheila Bittick and Roxanna Turner, both of Amarillo, and Shirley Petrey of Rowlett; four sons, Charles Elliott of Rhome, Bill Elliott of Heber Springs, Ark., Jack Elliott of Haskell-Benton, Ark., and Sammy Elliot of Garland; a brother, Randall Wilson of Arlington; 21 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
My kids and my sisters kids were not born yet. She would have loved my honorey kids!
Okay so my Mom was the baby of 9 children. My Grandma was 41 years old when she had my mom. She loved having a baby in the house and I think she would have kept on having kids if her body would have let her. Her children kept her young! This picture was taken in 1998. (I was 20)
My wedding day in 2000 with Grandma and Grandpa.
Here is the story of how my grandparents got married.
My Grandpa was a real cowboy. When Grandma was 15 and Grandpa was 19, Grandma went with him on a cattle drive.(I can't remember where they were going)
It was supposed to be a day trip but their wagon wheel broke and they knew they would have to stay the night. Now this was a different time and Grandma knew she couldn't do that unless she was married so they went to a justice of the peace and got married. That night they slept in a horse trough. Isn't that the best story. Grandma said when they got home she would change clothes behind the dresser so he would not see her. She also slept on top of the sheet and he slept under it for a whole week!
****My mom read this and told me that I rolled two events into one...the horse trough thing happened on a different occasion, they stayed the night at a hotel during the cattle drive. I guess my memory put the two together!*****
Grandma loved Christmas! She is the person who instilled the love of Christmas in my Mom, Me, and the list will continue on! I think part of the reason she loved Christmas was that she had an excuse to give gifts! She loved giving things away and would have given you the shirt off her back if you needed it. I'm a lot like that. The way a person smiles when you give them a gift makes my day and I think this is how she felt!
There is so much more I could tell you because my Grandma was so great but I'll stop here.
I hope that have honored my Grandma in this blog. She has been gone six years now but I will never forget her smile or her laugh. She loved me unconditionally and would always give me her honest opinion about things. I could tell her anything and I always felt accepted. I still miss my Grandma everyday! She was truly my best friend!
Here is a picture of my Grandma and one of me . I think we look alike!
