You have heard the expression hundreds of times where when one special person entered the room, it was as if it got brighter. This Lovely Lady was the start of that. However it wasn't just a room she would brighten. She alone could brighten up a whole house, a supermarket, even the whole Boeing Plant in Everett, Washington wouldn't be big enough to hold the light that emanated around this Lovely Lady. However, this was not why people were drawn in by her.
This Lovely Lady, had the talent to turn the light around and make the light come off you. To her, it was you that was making the room bright. She did this to everyone, no matter your past or how crummy your day was. She made you feel extraordinary, because she believed you were the most precious person living on Earth. To repeat, this is how she treated everyone.
She gave the world many lovely things. Her copies of known masters of art, that on many occasions where much great then the originals. All the paintings in my mothers house put two, were all paintings done by this Lovely Lady, in which she never asked for payment for these works of art, she gave them away to friends and family so that they could have lovely things in there homes. She would give sweets to little ones from her secret stash. She gave me when I was five, Irish Cream Sticks in which she told me not to tell my mother, for then she would want some and there would be none left for this Lovely Lady and I. Her favorite subject was the Savior, Jesus Christ in whom she rested her faith and proclaimed it in every act she did.
Paint on her nails and fingers, a short blond wig, the o'douls stash in her fridge, sunglasses, long fake eyelashes, nude and sometimes pink lipstick, a sweet clean scent that would linger on your clothes from a hug long after you had left, laughter that would echo across rooms. These and many more are the memories that are imprinted in the memories that loved her dearly.
The Lovely Lady gave so much. She gave me one of the greatest gifts I have ever received. Love. Unconditional Love. This Lovely Lady taught me and many others the way to love no matter what. I am thankful for her and the everlasting love she left with me and those that surrounded her.
This picture of this Lovely Lady is the insight of everything she was.
You are loved and sorely missed, Lovely Lady Louise.
She sounds like a really nice person.
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