Our prayers and thoughts are with you at this sad time. She sounds like a wonderful, loving Nanny and she was very lucky to be adored so much.
Everyone's posts trigger happy memories for me also...of being at Grandma's way up in the mountains of Summers County, West Virginia. She always had a pail of fresh, cold milk from one of my uncle's cows, fried potatoes, fried chicken, and wonderful homemade biscuits topped with strawberry jam from the cellar. She cooked on a wood stove and the house was heated with a pot-belly stove in the living room in the winter. I spent many warm, breezy West Virginia summers helping pick potatoes in their big gardens, picking cherries, rocking in her porch swing or playing with the infinite multitude of kittens under the porch. Of course, there was an outhouse, which was no fun in the winter!!
Sewing was a big part of her life and I treasure the few quilts I have from the many that she made.
Cindy