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GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — She will be remembered by thousands of Coast residents as the Woman Who Waved from the Porch.
Mattie “Linda” Cunningham waved from the front porch of her home for most of her 75 years. She loved nothing better, except church.
She waved at passersby with her entire body. And she wore a big smile when she waved — at school buses, patrol cars, the women on their way to work at the bank, everyone who passed her home on MS 613 in Escatawpa.
“Her ministry was bringing happiness to people,” said her lifelong friend Terry Breland of Wade, who is also an elder in her church. “If she could make you smile, if you could make you wave or just crack a smile, that’s what she wanted to do. She wanted you to smile as big as she was smiling.”
“School buses, they would come by, and Lord, there would be young ’uns hanging out the windows, waving.”
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — She will be remembered by thousands of Coast residents as the Woman Who Waved from the Porch.
Mattie “Linda” Cunningham waved from the front porch of her home for most of her 75 years. She loved nothing better, except church.
She waved at passersby with her entire body. And she wore a big smile when she waved — at school buses, patrol cars, the women on their way to work at the bank, everyone who passed her home on MS 613 in Escatawpa.
“Her ministry was bringing happiness to people,” said her lifelong friend Terry Breland of Wade, who is also an elder in her church. “If she could make you smile, if you could make you wave or just crack a smile, that’s what she wanted to do. She wanted you to smile as big as she was smiling.”
“School buses, they would come by, and Lord, there would be young ’uns hanging out the windows, waving.”
