WITHOUT QUESTION

She married our Daddy one day, than moved from Tennessee to Texas the next. She followed our Daddy wherever he went, be it North Dakota or Cheyenne Wyoming. She was the Love of his life and he was the Love of her life. They met when she was nine and he five years older.

She built a family of her very own with our Daddy. The growth of this family has been exponential and number over fifty today. She quietly fought racism by becoming the first of this, that and the other abroad and state side. During the AIDS Crisis, she and my Daddy owned and operated a Condom Vending Machine Business, (E & J Vending). She was the first Black Woman to do many things. She is not listed in any record books, but her love for all man kind lingers long in my heart.

She arrived via EMS to the ER on New Year's Eve 1997 and she silently went to be with Jesus on New Year's Day 1998.

My Daddy asked me to call the church and make sure absolutely no flowers (only greens) were to be in the sanctuary on the day of her Home Going Service. I did this without question. But, my Daddy's heart held one more unspoken request. On the day of her funeral, early in the morning, he called me, no not on the phone but from the other room, he called me. My new assignment was to secure a single red rose from Kroger and bring it back to him. I did this without question. And when the ministers closed the door on her casket, he silently laid his one red rose to rest.

My Mother, Eula Harper McCllough was born to the late Alexander Harper and Lula Peters Harper on 11 February 1937 in Williamson County Tennessee. She lived a beautiful life. She loved her husband and her family greatly. She loved to read and collected many books in her international military travels with our Daddy. She planted flowers and gifted her neighbors children on their birthdays and Christmas! During times of grief, she loved to write checks of help and have water and coffee services sent and set up in people homes in Franklin.

Happy Birthday Momma!