Michiele Lewallen
May 16, 1947 - April 9, 2009


 

Memories of Michiele Lewallen
by Judith Rizzotto-Enzor

On May 16th Michiele "Mike" would have been 62 years old. Mike and I have been friends for 48 years. It all started the summer before our first year at Roger's Jr. High.

I went horse back riding each weekend in Davie and when my parents picked me up to go home we stopped for a early dinner and Mike's mom Lucky was our waitress. To make a long story short, Lucky said that she and her family just moved to Cooper City and her daughter loved horses and she was starting at Roger's Jr. High and perhaps we could get to know each other and go riding together.

That was long, long ago and we may have been seperated by continents at times but one phone call would bring us up to date on each others lives no matter how long it had been that we had seen each other. Mike used to joke that my entry in her address book was the only one in pencil because I moved so many times and changed my phone number so often.

Sometimes we would meet it Miami International Airport when I had a layover between flights coming and going somewhere. She would drive down to see me and we sould talk and talk and then see each other again "sometime soon" we would say. And we would, she would come to visit me or I would go and visit my parents and we would see each other.

Mike was always only a telephone call away when I needed her. She was there for me when my Grandmothers, Mother, Son and Dad died. I used to tell her to pack a picnic basket and meet me on St. Road 84 and 4th Avenue in Lauderdale where everyone was buried and we would visit when I flew in o Lauderdale for a couple of hours or days.

We talked about everything and nothing. We laughed and cried and got mad at each other and then made up.

Mike was ill for a lot of years, but her voice was strong and her fun quotient was always there.

I miss her. And like so many others who went before her I will miss them all. I think about her and her family and pray for her and them each day.

Submitted by Judith Rizzotto-Enzor 5/13/09

 

 

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