I have some very fond memories of my Aunt Kay. This assignment hit me hard this week because her birthday was on September 13th. I remember the drive to her home in Wisconsin, the roads so curvy and rocky bluffs. Her home smelled of sweet candles and certainly of her big, black lab! She was a very wild woman! She rode a motorcycle, lived life on the edge and very outgoing. She was married, had no children and owned the local dairy queen. Her employees loved her, they called her their second mother. She was up to do anything from bowling to playing pranks on Grandma! She was the "cool aunt". She would come and visit and give us kids fake tattoos, put beads in our hair, buy us wild clothes and always rides on her black Harley with flames down the sides. Kay did things that would drive our parents and grandparents crazy! I also felt so cool when she was around. She was the greatest aunt a kid could ask for. I could always count on her to be a confidante, friend and to be there for me when I there was no one else to talk to. On January 18th, 2003, Kay was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident while riding from Wisconsin to California with her biker friends. She hit a Mule Deer in Flagstaff, Arizona and was pronounced brain dead a week later. She was only 42 years old. My whole family took her death hard, she was the glue that held us all together. I visited her grave in June and planted a plant. Above all, I have many great memories of her and she will always be in my heart and I know she is watching over my family.
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