Helen Thelma Brown (Ward) - From her niece, Wilhelmina "Mina" Ward Perry, William "Buddy" Ward's 2nd child

Started by Tanya Brown on Sunday, May 15, 2022
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I can remember growing up and visiting my Aunt Helen on perhaps two ocassions. I remember that she lived in this classy apartment building in a very nice streert. The halls were clean and shinning and there was an elevator. At that time, she was married and her husband was frequently away as he worked as a merchant seaman.
I thought that the apartment was modern and well furnished. Aunt Helem was my fashionable sophisticated aunt. When my older sister and I would visit, it was like stepping into a special place. I cannot remember how old I was , but I remember that she treated us as young women not children.

I met Mina (after many years) at her older sister, Marilyn's house in Brooklyn after she moved back from Puerto Rico. She told me things about my mother that I never knew. She said Mommy was her "glamerous" aunt and gave her her first pair of nylons. She described the relationship between Mommy and Uncle Buddie as very close, which of course I knew but she said they wondered who Tanya and Darlene were because he talked about us a lot.

Mommy didn’t have us until many years after her siblings' children. Darlene is the youngest of us first cousins and there are about 20 years between us and our oldest first cousins.

Any Saturday morning after playing awhile outside I could come in for water or bathroom and Uncle Buddy would be at the kitchen table talking with Mommy while she baked him a cake or something.

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