Ann Johns Harper Love/Med Offering
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My name is Jennifer Johns Custer, and Ann is my aunt.
I was the first of many more nieces and nephews to come. Ann has always been that kind of aunt who never missed an opportunity to spend time with you, take you places, and see to it that you, as a kid, never got a spanking in her presence...even if you deserved one! I came to realize in a few more years, as Kyle, my cousin, and next in her long line of nieces and nephews, that we were her first children, if you will, before she had her own two sons... at least that's how it felt. I can't begin to count how many weekends we spent at Aunt Ann's house, watching movies, going to the movies or to the zoo, taking afternoon cruises to the airport every Sunday with our heads sticking out of her sunroof (yes, those were the days when we also used to ride in the back of Daddy's pick-up truck to the Peach House on hot summer afternoons, too...and amazingly we survived it all?)
My Aunt Ann has a very special place in my heart. And while our mothers will always be our mothers in our hearts and souls, there are other women in our lives, also, who play roles that are so very important. Aunts, in particular, who are like our "other mothers", love us, fight for us, and see things in us we may not see in ourselves. There has always been a toughness, a warrior spirit in Ann that shows itself when needed. Maybe it came from growing up with four brothers, maybe it just is who she is... but it has definitely shown up as she has battled this Primary Peritoneal Cancer. I have continuously been amazed at her determination and her unwillingness to let this thing get her down, even just a little bit. I can only hope that some of that toughness, that warrior spirit, as I like to call it, flows through me.
Ann is a part-time oral surgeon dental assistant but has not been able to work lately. We, Ann's family, have started this fund as a love offering to help with the burden that is just part of what she, Larry, Tyler, and Mac have had to struggle with since her diagnosis in April 2014. Ann is the daughter of Carroll and Dot Johns of Gallman. Her brothers are Johnny Johns, Randy Johns, David Johns, and Andy Johns.
I was the first of many more nieces and nephews to come. Ann has always been that kind of aunt who never missed an opportunity to spend time with you, take you places, and see to it that you, as a kid, never got a spanking in her presence...even if you deserved one! I came to realize in a few more years, as Kyle, my cousin, and next in her long line of nieces and nephews, that we were her first children, if you will, before she had her own two sons... at least that's how it felt. I can't begin to count how many weekends we spent at Aunt Ann's house, watching movies, going to the movies or to the zoo, taking afternoon cruises to the airport every Sunday with our heads sticking out of her sunroof (yes, those were the days when we also used to ride in the back of Daddy's pick-up truck to the Peach House on hot summer afternoons, too...and amazingly we survived it all?)
My Aunt Ann has a very special place in my heart. And while our mothers will always be our mothers in our hearts and souls, there are other women in our lives, also, who play roles that are so very important. Aunts, in particular, who are like our "other mothers", love us, fight for us, and see things in us we may not see in ourselves. There has always been a toughness, a warrior spirit in Ann that shows itself when needed. Maybe it came from growing up with four brothers, maybe it just is who she is... but it has definitely shown up as she has battled this Primary Peritoneal Cancer. I have continuously been amazed at her determination and her unwillingness to let this thing get her down, even just a little bit. I can only hope that some of that toughness, that warrior spirit, as I like to call it, flows through me.
Ann is a part-time oral surgeon dental assistant but has not been able to work lately. We, Ann's family, have started this fund as a love offering to help with the burden that is just part of what she, Larry, Tyler, and Mac have had to struggle with since her diagnosis in April 2014. Ann is the daughter of Carroll and Dot Johns of Gallman. Her brothers are Johnny Johns, Randy Johns, David Johns, and Andy Johns.
Organizer and beneficiary
Ann Harper
Organizer
Brandon, MS
Mac Harper
Beneficiary