My Aunt June

Day #11: My Aunt June Perkey.
My earliest memories of aunt June are spending the night at her house and waking up and eating buttered toast and hot chocolate. June was always a fun person to be around. She loves to laugh and joke and have a good time. Out of all of my mom's sisters, June has always seemed to be more like my mother than anyone else.

June raised a pretty large family and has a very large extended family who is always at her house. She is one of the hardest workers I know (even though she is supposed to be retired). She has worked all of her life for the family business, Perkey's Upholstering.

June has one of the most tender and caring hearts of anyone you will ever meet and she doesn't know a stranger. It wouldn't matter if you were the poorest person on earth or the most well off, she would welcome you into her home and treat you like family. She would give you the shoes off of her feet if you needed them. She was always faithful and loyal to her husband and literally waited on him hand and foot, and now she does the same with her kids and grandkids.

I always thought I got my bad coffee drinking habits from my dad but through the years I have learned that it probably came from my aunt June. I'll bet she sleeps with a coffee IV connected to her at night!  One thing is for sure, she knows how to cook. Between her, my mother, and my granny, it would be hard to say who is the best cook of them all. She's the only person besides my mom that cooks enough for the entire neighborhood. Her son (my cousin Jerry) will tell you, she makes the best lemon pound cake on this side of Heaven.

I guess the thing that I admire most about my aunt June is her endurance. Although she carries a heavy burden for some people she still goes on another day. I have had to share some tough times ministering and grieving with her during the loss of her husband (my uncle Onloe) and her daughter (my cousin Donna). It hurt me so bad to have to see her go through such pain. I know she is still not over it either but she faithfully endures.

I don't get to see June a whole lot even though she lives just up through the woods from me. She goes out to eat with my mom every week and that's pretty much how I keep up with her. But I do love her and admire the life that she has lived and I pray that her work load will lighten up and she can enjoy life because if anyone deserves it, she does.