Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Samantha Faye.

I'm Deb Bowen.

And we're delighted to have you join us this week.

We wanted to take some time and pay tribute to a person that has been close to our hearts,

but especially close to Deb's four years. And we just wanted to share this with you and talk

about through our stories and processes how we can all kind of facilitate and carry and hold each

other through the process of loss and grief. So I know that sounds like kind of a depressing topic

for a show, but I promise we're going to keep it light and fun as we remember our dear friend,

Granny Jean. Deb, can you start off by telling people who, like, an overview of who she is and her

amazing, fantastical life?

Jean was larger than life. She really was. You know, I had the privilege of writing her a

bituary and she had asked me to do it. Jean and I've been friends for 49 years. So I'm old folks

and Jean was even older than me. Jean was 93 and she had asked me years ago to write her a bit

uary and I said, okay, I'll do that. Well, when I sat down to actually do it, it was a daunting

task in many ways. First of all, she came from a huge family. So it was a lot of gathering information

of just logistical information about including members of her family. But the hard part was trying

to capture in a few words who she was and had been to so many people for so many years. And I

bolded it down to one sentence, which I'm not sure accomplished what I intended for it to accomplish.

Jean was a Southern lady. Jean was born in the 1920s. So she was a teenager during World War Two.

She grew up in a small rural Southern town and she adhered to the protocols and rituals and

mores of her time and her culture. She never once ever pumped gas. She said, and this is a direct

quote a hundred times from her, ladies don't pump gas. That was one side of Jean and she was a

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