I want to wish my first cousin Geneva 'Cookie' Hawkins a happy 69th birthday, which would be September 2nd, 2025. My dear cousin Geneva is named after my father's big sister, Aunt Geneva Hawkins, who died back in 1989. Cousin Geneva has one daughter and is a doting aunt to her five nieces, Julie, Tanika, Toni, Takira, and Kim Hawkins. And I look forward to our annual 2025 Hawkins family reunion that will actually be down in the City of Charleston during November 2025 this year.
I remembered at our grandparents Conwell and Maggie Hawkins old house on Minus Street in Greenville, when I was sitting at the table with the children, my dear cousin Geneva handed me a cold Dr Pepper at the kids table. We always had wonderful family reunions through the years. I remembered her three sisters, my dear cousins Paulette, Grace, and Nadine Hawkins, always loved to sing gospel music at our beautiful family parties. The gospel songs they loved to sing were from groups such as Shirley Caesar, the Davis Sisters, BeBe and CeCe Winans, the Mississippi Mass Choir, Mary Mary, and Smoky Norful. And God has blessed our beautiful family through the years.
As a family, we have had wonderful trips to Charleston and the Lowcountry in years past at our family reunions. I remembered that my cousins Geneva, Deborah Doretha, Lillie Mae, Beverly, Paulette, Nadine, Marie, Sharon, Elaine, Pat Scott, and Gracie would love to tour various attractions in the Holy City, such as the Charleston Aquarium, the Old Houses district, the Charleston Museum, the Citadel Mall, Folly Beach, the Battery, and the City Market. And my dear cousin Cookie appreciated the fact when I told her that Charleston was once the capital of South Carolina ages ago in history. My family has truly had many great times down in the Lowcountry in the past.
So I want to wish my first cousin Geneva 'Cookie' Hawkins a happy 69th birthday, which would be September 2nd, 2025. Cousin Geneva is a dear person, and she has a heart full of gold and faith in God, who always believed in a better day. It's always good to see her at our small family get-togethers we have every month. And it's so good to see her still going strong! My dear cousin Cookie Hawkins is a wonderful angel of godly faith.
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Steven Hawkins is a freelance writer from Greenville, SC.
