A very deliberate artwork she entitled "Some Spots" and presented to her Papa (me).

 

 

  Brannon spent a few days on her own with her grandparents in Tallahassee just before her seventh birthday. Here is her letter home.

 Under construction Charmaine wore the same dress that many of our family members used, beginning with her mother, Janice in 1961.

Rome News-Tribune, Sunday, April 1, 1990, page 1

The date of publication is only a coincidence, I promise. I have the framed award to prove it! Tony Pope, my fellow McHenry School faulty al...

 

This date is a guess. I wish there were a date on this letter I found among my Mother's correspondence. I suspect Brannon dictated this ...

  Jack Baird and Porterdale friends in Atlanta Jack Baird, one of my mother's older brothers. Jack Baird and his wife Georgia

Copied from Carol Payne's Facebook, February 9, 2017 That's my baby on the left and little Lisette next to her.

The caption I wrote for Brannon on this kindergarten masterpiece: " Lillian pulling up holding Papa's fingers - 1-29-89 6 mos. 2 da...

 This picture is labeled: Lillian Matthews Shaw (5 most.) Lillian Wilkerson Shaw (87) Christmas 1988 My grandmother and her namesake on abou...

An election I actually won!   

On about this date, Laurie Craw painted this watercolor to commemorate the birth of Lillian Matthews Shaw. Thanks, Laurie! 

(Comments are from 2019) On this day in 1988 a great blessing entered my life. Lillian Shaw you were and are a great joy to your ol’ man. I ...

 

Facebook Comments from 2009: Erskine Thompson Ah, yes...the trip to Washington that I didn't get to take. Oh, well. At least that means...

 Today was Rachel Jones first Sunday as choir director and accompanist at Trinity United Methodist Church.

We had been here the summer before with Daddy. Now he was gone and we came again. It was bittersweet to be there without him. I am adding th...