Gramma's Hat

My gramma wore this hat on a hot day in June. (Her name is June too.) It was the day I graduated from college, and it was very hot. We were all seated on the lawn, spectators back by the "old adobe wall" and us graduate types up by the stage they put behind St. Josephs Hall. The sun was beating down on everyone. It was a fine day for hats.

I was wearing a hat too. (Not one of those stupid little graduate caps, but a nice straw hat... The kind you wear when you're working in rice fields... The kind that keeps the sun off.) Unfortunately, Gramma showed up, with friend Ruth in tow, without a hat on her head. She did the best with what she had.

Gramma wil be missed.

October 30, 1913 - June 2, 1996