Laura Mccammon
I have always felt honored to be amongst all of her namesakes. She has always been a part of our family and a friend to our mother. It was this amazing look and realization into what my mothers life was before the kids. Trips to Cincinnati to see her, even getting our boxer Rocky while there. Arts and crafts, we were always doing something while with her. Trips to Hendersonville, Gallatin and Nashville. Visiting her parents home by the lake across from Johnny Cash’s house and they had heated bricks on the floor in the kitchen. We’d never seen anything like that. Her fathers pottery... going with her to Ann’s and seeing the small tree house with the bathtub by the creek. I thought it was so cool! Walking in the woods taking pictures. She loved photography. Her visits to Bloomington, In and Nashville In. Walking in the woods digging up ferns and carrying huge rocks from the creek up to her car and loading them up. Her driving up her brothers RV to Indiana and we got to ride in it and visit. The time she had mom meet her in Nashville so they could have time without the kids and all of us were so jealous. Our trip on the houseboat in Tennessee for mom and dads anniversary and she came to stay with us, my daughter was 4 and became quite attached to a small green blanket Aunt Laura brought, she gave it to her and she still has it. And we all did arts and crafts on the houseboat too. Aunt Laura’s home was my halfway stop while traveling. Driving from Texas and driving from Florida while in the Navy. All the many pictures I have in my house that she painted or drew. And a snowman she made for Christmas and bags that she painted and some cards and little women that she made. She surrounds me now. I believe her independence and professional accomplishments and her love for arts and crafts and photography really have influenced my life. I’m thankful that she didn’t suffer for long and that she is with family. That’s what she wanted most. I will always love her and will never forget her. She had the cutest laugh.
