We miss you Grandma Greer

This tribute is to my Grandma Greer, she passed away two years ago, Easter Sunday. We would like to keep you close to our hearts this day. One of my most favorite recent memories of her...the whole Greer family flew in to brother's wedding in LA. We did not know at that time, nor did she know, that an illness was already present and would unexpectedly take her from us much, much too soon.
Her favorite phrase: Come give grandmama some suga!

Bertha Ethel Greer: Her kisses were like a butterflies wings, she was the epitome of a Southern woman; green bean casserole with 2 sticks of butter, grits for breakfast, cranberry sauce from the can, and always served super-sweet Southern style ice tea.

On those hot & humid summer days, she and my Auntie treated us to boxes of popsicles, the old school ones that you let hang from your mouth until our tongues turned colors. She once told me that a woman never sweats, she 'glows.' Grandma always gave big hugs and fish kisses. She showered us with 'sugar' even as we grew taller and eventually peeked over her forehead in our teens. She enjoyed telling us stories of yesterday and years past. Although my family moved around a lot somehow when we arrived at her house in Columbia, SC, there was a familiar scent of home. We knew grandma's perfume and her sweet powder scent awaited us. My dad is more like her than he admits. They're both avid readers, love the Sunday paper, control the TV, are big talkers. Similarly they both enjoy telling a good (long) story with multiple intertwining dimensions. In fact, my Grandma had the scoop on every building, family, local event, historical significance and always knew who is sleeping with whom, which she told us when we were old enough to understand. Ethel could literally talk her way out of anything (my dad hasn't mastered that skil). She was caught speeding one day (imagine that) and driving with expired tags or something. She sweet-talked the patrol officer so long that they both came to the conclusion that she and his mother attended school together and he let her drive away without penalty. A true Southern woman, sweet and well-read, she could also cook up a storm. Today I just want to remember you, in all of your sweetness, we miss you terribly, there's no one with that same warm heart and tough love. We love you and miss you so much~