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Elizabeth Leahy Elizabeth Leahy
In Memory of
Elizabeth M.
Leahy (Murphy)
1924 - 2015
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Faith Morrell McIntosh

Dear Mrs. Leahy, I was sad to hear of your passing, but you were sick for a long time and I know you’re at peace now. I was a naive, insecure, little brown girl from a Caribbean island where stress was low and life was good, suddenly thrust into a foreign land where people who looked like me were treated badly and made to feel inferior. When I look back now, life in Connecticut in the late sixties/early seventies was both simple and difficult. You used to invite me in for an after-school snack which was usually one of your delicious, open-face, hot turkey sandwiches; you introduced me to them. I’d never even heard of a hot sandwich before! I have such fond memories of you. I close my eyes and see Mary-Ellen and I seated at the kitchen table while you worked over the stove in your apron and those black, nurses’ boots. I always wondered why you wore those boots, but I suppose you found them comfortable. You really were the consummate mother. I recall your soft, lilting, Irish accent when you calmly and jokingly scolded Mary-Ellen or the boys. You had a very gentle sense of humor. You were one of the first people in my life who made me feel pretty – you’d always gush over my “big eyes and long eyelashes,” and made a little girl suffering from culture shock gain a small foothold of acceptance in a new, complicated country. I love you – rest in peace.
Friday August 21, 2015 at 3:29 pm
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