A Eulogy

Margaret Brothers Gregory















(Margaret is on the right - to the left is my grandmother, Juanita)

We lost our dear Granny this past Sunday, June 25th.

She was born on July 10, 1919. She was married to the late Arthur "Bear" Gregory, former Sheriff of Woodford County. Together they owned a small grocery store in Nonesuch, KY. They had two children, Marcella and Bill (my father-in-law). Six grandchildren (Phil, Chris and Michael Gregory, Brian, Danny and David Richardson). Eight great-grandchildren.

There is so much to say about this woman - a wonderful, loving, caring, witty, AMAZING lady. She was a true Matriarch of her family. She loved her family so much, and she was incredibly loyal and protective of them all. Anyone who hurt any of her family members were forever on her blackball list...and that wasn't a bad thing.

She was a total prankster...she loved to scare people and to make people jump in fright, but she also loved to be on the receiving end of pranks. She was scared to death of mice...yet she had a tiny little stuffed mouse that sat on her kitchen window. When she wasn't looking, her grandsons would steal the mouse and throw it under her feet screaming "Look out, Granny...there's a mouse." Every single time - no matter how many times they would do that - she would scream and jump. Every single time. Then she would chase the prankster out the door, down the stairs of the deck and into the yard laughing the whole way - even at 86 years old. One would think that she would have put that mouse away somewhere else, but something tells me that she liked having that prank pulled on her.

Sundays...ahhhh, Sundays. No one on this Earth could cook like Granny. She made fried chicken to make Colonel Sanders himself cry. She would start making Sunday dinners on Friday. No one helped her - she wouldn't allow anyone to help her! Once Sunday arrived, there would be a glorious array of fried chicken surrounded by NO LESS than 12 side dishes - usually more. She would have mashed potatoes and gravy, mac and cheese, cauliflower, cole slaw, carrots, dressing, rolls, fruit, greenbeans, corn, and SO much more. She made the best sweet tea in the world, and her desserts were divine like everything else. She did that EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY. And she wouldn't let anyone help her, even, with cleaning up.

Granny was so easy and fun to talk to. She had so many stories to tell, but at the same time, she was always interested to hear what others had to say. There was simply no one like her.

What I loved the most about Granny was that she welcomed me with open arms into her family. She never assumed anything about me - just took me for who I was. She was always excited to see us and the girls. I was so honored that she was able to attend Maddie's ballet recital a couple of weeks before she died...and I was also SO happy that we were able to experience one last Sunday dinner with her the Sunday before she died.

I know that she is hand-in-hand with her dear husband right now watching down over us all from Heaven. She was a wonderful woman...simple as that...and she will be sorely, lovingly missed.