Monday, October 3, 2011

Your Grandma Diana


Andrew, I received this email from your great grandma Hill today and I thought you would love to read it one day as much as I did:

"Our beautiful Diana was memorialized at the car show today. The car club she and Ken belonged to gave both us and Ken a memorial plaque. It was such an honor...and the tears flowed as you can well imagine.

The plaque (photo attached) has Diana's picture on it as well the toy-stuffed 1916 Overland (Diana's car that G'pa Hopkins gave her some 23 years ago). The Overland is used at the car show to collect toys for Charity. Diana loved this car show and her little car club which now has eight members. Small but mighty! They get a lot done for Charity. We are so proud. It was fun to see the Overland filled to the brim again this year.

Our 1948 Lincoln that Lee named "Diana" some months ago won Best of Show at the car show. I didn't know he named the car Diana until today when I looked at the front license plate and there was her little California black and yellow license plate Lee bought her over 40 years ago. He found the plate in his tool box and put it on there soon after her death. The little bike license plate has her name on it. Well...it brought tears to my eyes to think he did that. Lots of tears today."