James Andrews

This is my Granddaddy. His name was James Andrews. He was tall and lanky, quiet, easy going, loved to tease and loved his family and babies. He came from a large family. They were all fun loving and easy going people.

He and my Granny had 11 children but only 4 lived. My mother was the first baby to live. She was named after him (Jimmie Lucille) Grandaddy would iron her clothes and dress her. My Aunt used to tease that Jim thought that was his baby and not Betty's.

When I was growing up, he was always in the background. Granny was the talkative fiesty one and the one everyone saw the most.

He was hardworking and just loved being at home. If he never left home for months on end, he was happy, he gardened and tinkered with and built things. He was the happiest at home in his little house.

I never saw him mad. I am sure that he had his times, but he never showed it in front of us kids.

It wasn't until after my Granny died that I really got to know him.

When my mother worked the night shift, she would stop off at his house on her way home. He would make breakfast for her and they would visit.

When my husband was stationed in Korea and I lived in Waco, I would go over to Grandaddys and have breakfast with him and my mother. He dearly loved to have Misty (3)and Nathan(just a baby) over. He always had orange juice and vanilla wafers for them. He loved to hold them and would say over and over "too sweet, too sweet"

He had a little black dog called Buster that he dearly loved. That little dog was his life after my Granny died.

I am so very blessed to have had such great grandparents and such wonderful memories of good times and being loved.