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RIP Dottie
My mother called yesterday...my great-aunt Dottie died. Dorothy Hix of Birmingham, Alabama,, last living member of her generation, older sister of my grandfather, John Daniel Hix. She was something like 92 when she died, notwithstanding a typically Southern ferocious addiction to cigarettes. The Hix women live forever. Mama Hix (my great-grandmother) lived into her '90s as well, as did Dottie's sisters and cousins.
She and I corresponded a lot. She was very sweet--would always send me very Southern Baptist Easter cards (lots of Bible verses--that branch of the family was Southern Baptist which is odd to imagine my grandather as--he was VERY progressive for his time and made a point of socializing with blacks when he was a pilot in the Army Air Corps, even though that was frowned upon), and write in this flowery old lady hand, and ask about my career. A very kind, thoughtful, Christian old lady. It was either she or one of her sisters who was a friend to Zelda Fitzgerald. I wonder what her experiences during the civil rights era were?
I'll post the obituary when I find it. I would love to go to the funeral but that's just not financially possible.
She and I corresponded a lot. She was very sweet--would always send me very Southern Baptist Easter cards (lots of Bible verses--that branch of the family was Southern Baptist which is odd to imagine my grandather as--he was VERY progressive for his time and made a point of socializing with blacks when he was a pilot in the Army Air Corps, even though that was frowned upon), and write in this flowery old lady hand, and ask about my career. A very kind, thoughtful, Christian old lady. It was either she or one of her sisters who was a friend to Zelda Fitzgerald. I wonder what her experiences during the civil rights era were?
I'll post the obituary when I find it. I would love to go to the funeral but that's just not financially possible.