Walter Hingle
Uncle Mackie,
This is a belated tribute to your being a wonderful uncle. With 10 years age difference, I ended up being the youngest of the Southport gang living with grandma, mom, dad, Charlie, Melvin, Gerald, and you in that little 3-room shanty in "The Parish", i.e. Jefferson. I was too young to have memories of back then, 1948, but I always felt a bond between us as we both grew up through the later years...
Your love and jovial ways always lifted us up during family visits...
And your special love for my mom, Margaret, 8 years older, always came through, as she helped you dress for school, fixed family meals, and just loved you to death... Grandma was so busy with working, trying to keep the family together, that you kids had to grow up fast...
And, I'll never forget your last word's to me in 2017, when you yourself were sick and hardly able to talk, asked me... "How's your mama?"...
Uncle Mackie... I'm now(2023) happy to say; You and Mom, and now Marie, are together again, not in the Parish, but in Paradise with Jesus!
Love,
Walter Hingle