Deborah Mayes Shirk
I will miss my guy cousin Johnny.
Am happy to have fond family memories of John and other cousins adventuring at our grandparents’ Mayes Carrollton farm. The dirtier we kids were, the more fun we had.
…We always felt welcome in the Cerniak home with Uncle John leaning over stove happily cooking fried liver and Cora’s animated chatting. Mike and Terry would join John to see what project he was up to. Susan and I played in Karen’s room. Younger memories.
…And then we grew up and went our different ways along different paths and later, occasionally, we saw each other at some special family event and then suddenly we were all young again! Just looked a little different. Time can be kind.