Janice Fish
The cost of war and inner beauty.
Viola was a supportive mother and mother-in-law, a positive , encouraging grandmother, a place of calm acceptance and endless forgiveness in a family of great laughter, love of life, loyalty and tragedy. Viola always carried the sadness of the grief of losing her vivacious, affectionate and adventurous son Pin and never allowed taps to be played within her hearing whether on the television, radio or in person. We all learn the cost of serving your country and the effects it had back home from the day we were born. B
ut she would play with us granddaughters in the backyard as though life was the grandest thing there was! She stayed pretty and trim all her life by working in the garden with her flowers, dancing and chasing and helping grandchildren. She made a point of living and teaching all of us never to see color and never to treat people according to race or class which was all that people were doing at that time. She was a woman way ahead of her time. She had the deepest almost blackest brown eyes I remember with deep calm in them. She loved find music and perfume and somehow still saw the beauty in life. Most of the days of summer her deceased daughter Eleanor's children would come and stay with her and George to play in the lake, have picnics in the backyard, throw baseballs and play badminton and croquet.
ut she would play with us granddaughters in the backyard as though life was the grandest thing there was! She stayed pretty and trim all her life by working in the garden with her flowers, dancing and chasing and helping grandchildren. She made a point of living and teaching all of us never to see color and never to treat people according to race or class which was all that people were doing at that time. She was a woman way ahead of her time. She had the deepest almost blackest brown eyes I remember with deep calm in them. She loved find music and perfume and somehow still saw the beauty in life. Most of the days of summer her deceased daughter Eleanor's children would come and stay with her and George to play in the lake, have picnics in the backyard, throw baseballs and play badminton and croquet.
