She fought a 4 year battle with amyloidosis, a rare disease that results from the abnormal deposition of a particular protein in various tissues of the body. Lynette's amyloidosis was in her heart and in 2004 she underwent a heart transplant. The disease was in remission for a while, but slowly it came back, causing a multitude of other problems in her body. She never gave up fighting and had such strong faith God would take care of her.
She had been in the hospital since July of this year. To know my sister is to know someone who always liked to be on the go. It was not easy for her to be away from her life at her lake house in Emory, TX. My sis was a talented painter and for many years she owned a business called "Treasures of the Heart". She designed, painted and marketed crafts similar to what you'd find in Old Town Spring near where I live.
Whenever our family was all together, (made difficult by the miles between our homes), the girls would shop and hit the casinos to play the slots! We traded clothes, shoes, purses and books we no longer used or needed and would lay on the bed or sit around the kitchen table talking about nothing in particular.
She was quite a bit older than me...so much so that she was married and had a baby 9 months BEFORE I was born! I truly was her baby sister and that's how she always introduced me.
Her goal was to make it out of the hospital and get home for Thanksgiving. This year, "Home" didn't mean Haughton, Louisiana... it meant Heaven. And that's the best place to be.
I love you sis and we all will miss you terribly.
3 comments:
So well put "baby" sis. It is so strange not to pick up the phone and call her in the hospital to see how her day went and to know she will not join in our fun of shopping and swapping!! We will miss her, but she made sure we will remember her since we are usually all together during Thanksgiving, we will be able to have an "honary shopping day/casino day for big sis" each Thanksgiving-knowing that she would love to be right there with us!! Eventhough I am now the oldest, I cannot replace her and become the "big sis"-she will always have that place. Linda
I am so sorry for y'alls loss. I always loved Lynette. She was so sweet!
I miss her soo much. She was the matriarch of our family and I miss her guidance as my own family is now growing. I want so much to share them with her.
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