Mary Snowball.

Born Florence Mary Lewis, on July 31, 1924, in the town of Lymn in England. She was a sickly child, as weak and little as a "fourpenny bunny," she was called.

She grew up to marry Jack Snowball, my mother's only brother, in 1945. He came to America -- I don't remember the date, but it must have been in the late seventies -- and she soon followed him here, and they were together here until Jack's death from lung cancer in 1981.

She died on September 28th of this year, 2001. She went quietly at 10:45 AM, after a coma that had lasted for 36 hours. Lung cancer had claimed her as well.

I do not miss her.

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