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| Virginia Graham Crumb, 1945 |
For
Mom
Virginia Graham
Crumb
8/20/24-5/9/18
A
lot of life—
93-plus
years—
A
great lot of life—
Born
on an August day in 1924
In
Ithaca, lakeside city you loved
And
returned to
For
high school (Class of ’42)
And
delivery of 4 kids
Doctor
appointments
Dentist
appointments
Christmas
shopping
Departure
on trains
To
places where Jack
Was
stationed in the Navy—
Memphis,
Tennessee
Chincoteague,
Virginia
Charlestown,
Rhode Island—
Raising
a rambunctious baby
In
cramped quarters—
I
was that wild thing
Running
amok
Amid
sailors and teen brides—
And
then raising two kids
In
a rented house
On
an isolated farm road—
And
then three kids
In
the new house
That
Jack built
In
Jacksonville—
And
then four kids
In
a bigger house
In
Interlaken—
Where
you planted roots
For
sixty-five years—
Playing
piano at the church,
Singing
with the Hot Flashes,
Lunching
with friends
And
crossing kids at school,
Bookkeeping
for Jack’s businesses
And
for the church—
Hosting
an open house
For
constant streams of neighbors,
Friends,
travel-weary relatives
And
strangers—
Who
knew the last stop
Would
be a hospital in Rome, NY
With
a broken hip,
Pneumonia
and baffled confusion,
Where
you told a nurse
You
were home in Interlaken
--Jan Barry
--Jan Barry
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