In Memory of Actie Lee Cook
May 25, 1934 to June 30, 2001


If Ever One Could Clearly See,
The True Meaning In Which She Means To Me.
To Define A Love So Unconditional Can Be,
T'is My Grandmothers Love That's Given So Free.
Matter Not The Things We May Have Done,
Race's Lost Nor Battles Won.
Whether Right, Whether Wrong,
Is Her Smile She Gave And The Love So Strong.
Was A Gift Of God Sent Down From Above,
Is A Gift Of Our Grandmothers Unconditional Love.
Her Battles Through Life Have Struggled To Win,
And Now She To Pay's For All Of Our Sin's.
Her Strength Through It All Kept Our Families Together
Though Near And Abroad Through All Types Of Weather
For My Grandmothers Love On Wings Of A Prayer,
Shall Fly Home To Heaven On A Cloud Of Air.
Here Is Your Angel That We Surrender To You,
With Her Arms Open Wide She Asks To Come To,
She Waits For Your Hand,
A Long Awaited Journey Has Come To An End.
With Her Memory And Love I Shall Cradle With Care,
To Know When I Look Up She'll Be Looking Down From There.
It's Hard To Let Go, So Precious As She,
You Must Understand, I Know It's Selfish Of Me.
To Know You'll Have Her All Soon Enough,
It's Taking My Grandmothers Love That I Find Is So Rough.
No More Shall I Feel The Soft Soothing Touch,
In My Grandmothers Strong Yet Gentle Clutch.
No More Times Of Funny Faces We Made,
To Hear Her Laugh In An Even Trade.
Her Words She Strained, Hard To Pronounce,
The Snicker Or Dance With That Funny Little Bounce.
She Is, What Some Have Never Known,
She Is, What Some Have Never Seen,
To Be Granted The Years That She Has Grown,
To Be Granted This Gift And Know What It Means!
This Is The True Meaning Of An Unconditional Love,
This Is The True Meaning Of My Grandmothers Love.



 In Memory of Eddie Cook
January 12,1930 to November 25, 2002


How much I love you I can't say:
It's more than words can hold.
You're all at once my rich, red clay,
My potter and my mold.
Yours the words that shaped my voice,
The spirit within mine.
Yours the will that shaped my choice,
My fortune, and my sign.

How lucky I was to have had you
At the core of me!
Wise and good, you always knew
Just what I could be.

And so I came to be someone
Whom I could be proud of.
For this I give my swollen sum
Of gratitude and love



To Grandpa and Grandma from:
Michele, Justin, Reneasha, Stewart, Brianna, and Delvin.