Highlights of Mom's Life

There are so many thoughts about our mom that come to mind that it is hard to narrow them down to share.  Mom was born on Monday, March 22, 1937.  Our grandparents, Laura and Hezekiah Powell named mom Louisiana Powell.  There were many good times in the household as she grew up. She attended Berean Baptist Church in Live Oak.  A proud high school graduate, Louisiana attended the historic O. H. Herman School where the teachers took time to intentionally pour themselves into their students of color. 

Mom met and begin to ‘court’ Jessie Times.  They enjoyed one another’s company and on Wednesday, September 10, 1952 they started their life as husband and wife.  Looking at the pictures, dad was a handsome man and mom was a beautiful bride.  God blessed them to parent nine of us children.  As the mother of nine, mom took pride in caring for us.  She was a fun mom with a sense of humor.  There are so many funny stories from grown up.  For example, our little sister got a toy horse as a gift.  Mom would make us take this plastic horse outside daily and ‘feed’ him and bring him back inside… go figure.  Growing up in the country we would all play outside all day long.  When it was time to come in and eat mom would fix all of our plates and call us inside.  Out of all of us kids, Laura was the one who really loved to eat meat (and still does).  She would come in the house first while the rest of us were still outside playing and she would take a bite off of everyone’s meat on their plate.  It was a long time before mom figured out it was her and all mom could do was laugh.  However, mom did have a serious side.  When we were at church, we knew that we were not to talk and walk in and out after service started.  If one of us acted up mom would give us that stern look and if we didn’t stop, she would pinch us real hard and then give us that look that dared us to cry.  Mom also didn’t play when it came to disciplining  us.  It could be three or four months later, but if she found out something that we did after the fact we would still get spanked for it.

Mom took great care of her house.  If it was something that needed to be done in the home, she would make sure it happened.  She was an excellent cook, housekeeper, and seamstress.  She could sew so well that not only did she make outfits for her daughters to wear but mom actually made our brother a dapper white man’s suit.  When her daughters grew up and married, she tailored made their wedding dresses for them.  Mom loved the outdoors.  She loved going fishing as well as camping and she could shoot a gun so good that she could strike a kitchen match from a distance.  Later in life mom enjoyed watching Tyler Perry movies, watching Lifetime, going to church and traveling.  As adults it was a joy to travel with mom to Disney, Maryland, Canada, to visit flower museums, and go on church trips to name a few.  Mom really loved her family and enjoyed spending time with the family sitting around talking and eating, and yes, mom could eat!  If you wanted something it was best to get yours out first because she would nearly eat it all.  Although mom was a great cook, she equally enjoyed it when someone else would cook her favorite foods that included shrimp, steaks and spicy wings.  There are so many priceless memories that we could go on and on.  But what we can say about our mom is that mom was a wonderful woman who loved God and her family.  She was active in her church, Jesus Freewill Holiness, where she was the beloved Church Mother.  She was active with her family where she was the beloved matriarch. 

On Thursday, November 26, 2020 God rewarded mom’s faithfulness to Him by calling her home.  We will truly miss her on this side but we know as believers that to be absent from us here is to be present with Him there.  Mom’s family include: children Jesse Times, Jr., Donnie (Helen) Times of Clute; Roy (Janice) Times of Angleton; Sharon (Wesley) Moore of League City; Laura (Joe) Mitchell of Live Oak; Curtis (Mary) Times of Cedar Lane; Ronald (Lucy) Times of Friendswood; Kevin (Trish) Times of Mount Belvieu; Melanie Smith of Cedar Lake; her other children that she raised, Jonthen (April) Times and LaToya Dale; siblings, Mollie Williams, Nettie Powell, Anita Griggs and Marshall Powell; 31 grandchildren, a large host of great-grands and great-great grands.

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