Nana died today at around 7:00 PM on January 28, 2005. She had not eaten since Tuesday. I went and saw her this morning and she looked bad. I will really miss her.

Nana was not hard to please. A few simple things that made Nana happy include going to Walgreens, you could just see her eyes light up, planting roses and watering them in the evening of a warm summer day, going to the flea market and cooking Sunday dinners. She could never open just one can of corn, she would always cook enough food to feed an army. I once asked her why she cooked so much, and she told me that when she was a child money and food were always scarce and when she got older it made her feel good to cook a large dinner no matter how many people were coming.

She was the toughest lady I knew. She watched our Papa pass away, and then lost a child. I remember the day we buried Larry and I asked her, "How you doin Nana, you feeling OK?" and she said, "not really, I feel like this is the worst day of my life." She had such a big heart, managing to hold it together during such hard times.

In the final few years of her life, my grandmother said to me more than once, "Don't ever get old." I thought about this for quite some time, watching her struggle with physical difficulties from which she would never quite recover. Even though her body had aged her heart and mind were still quite young.

I am grateful for the time I spent with Nana, I am grateful that God let her live for a year following her stroke. I don't think she needed a year, but the rest of us did. The rest of us would have liked to have had 5 or 10 more years to be with her. But as her health declined, I am grateful the Good Lord took her home, her final home.

Everything you taught me, everything I seen you do, your legacy will live on in my daily life and the life of my children. They will know you as I did and be proud.

As the good book tells us we will all be together again someday, so until that time comes lets remember how important family was to Nana and try to make the effort to continue to be close. She loved her family and her family greatly loved her.

Cradled in the arms of our Lord, you deserve to rest, you deserve to be with your family in Heaven and rest in peace.

Memphis Commercial Appeal - Jan 30, 2005 Faye Frazier, 79, of Memphis, machine operator, died Friday at Senior Services Healthcare Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Halls (Tenn.) Funeral Home with burial in Friendship (Tenn.) Cemetery. She was a member of Beech Grove Baptist Church and a volunteer for Memphis Veterans Medical Center and the Red Cross. Mrs. Frazier, the widow of Royce Frazier,leaves a daughter, Brenda Crisman of Memphis; a son, Gary Sandford Frazier of Olive Branch; a brother, Van Curtis of Halls, nine grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.