Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Aunt Anne Purvis - "The Great AA" - has left this world a little less bright this week. She was a selfless, gentle, loving woman with a tremendous and empathetic generosity of spirit and a quick, easy laugh. AA was a woman who was happy, who loved others and herself and all the dogs of the world, and who was bemused by most of life. If she ever spent any time complaining or being angry, I never saw it. She was the kind of person who would cause you to rethink any unkind thoughts you might have on a given subject. She had tremendous faith, until the very end. Like a second mother to all the Purvis children, we were blessed to have her in our lives in so many ways and we owe a debt of gratitude. 85 years simply wasn't enough.
I suspect she greeted St. Peter with a box of donuts.
