03/26/2026
.~*💔*~. I have not posted on PJ’s Gift Shoppe for some time now, and I feel that I owe y’all an explanation. For the past four years, I have been my Momma’s caregiver. What started out as a need for a simple surgery ended up with many trips to the ER, doctor’s appointments, surgery, and a diagnosis of Dementia that I feel was brought on by too many antibiotics. Momma lost her battle with Diabetes and Dementia on February 13. She is now tending to the amazing gardens in heaven. I will gradually add more posts and content to the website as time permits.
~*❤️‍🩹*~. Part of the grieving process for me will be to continue creating designs with my Momma’s art, carrying on her legacy.
The following is from Momma’s obituary...
"Phyllis Mae was born May 14, 1936, on the Jagow Ranch in Arlington, Arizona, located in the Sonoran Desert. The doctor was from Buckeye, so that is the place of birth on her birth certificate. Phyllis Mae was the seventh of eight children born to Walter Ray Richardson and Mary Nim Thompson Richardson. She graduated from Redmond High School in Redmond, Oregon, in 1954 and earned an associate’s degree in Commercial Illustration and Design from Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, Oregon, in 1957. Phyllis attended beauty college in Las Vegas, Nevada, but when it went out of business, she decided to join the Army on February 1, 1959. Phyllis Mae was an outstanding trainee out of two platoons and an acting sergeant in basic training at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama, nestled in the Choccolocco Foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. She met George Harvey Fisher, an MP in the Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. After a courtship of 56 days, Phyllis Mae and George Harvey married on December 1, 1959. She mustered out of the Army on April 20, 1960, and became a housewife raising her two children, Janey Loree and Douglas Wayne. She was a homemaker, published author and illustrator, a master gardener, painter, and prayer warrior."
~*❤️*~. Momma, you are loved to way out yonder and back again for eternity...
