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By Meredith Gorfein
Special to the Rappahannock News
Lottie Aylor has a touch of arthritis in her right arm. “I can only lift it up to here,” she said as she raised it just above her waist. At 91, Lottie Aylor realizes it may finally be time to be taking care of herself.
“Taking care of” is the thread connecting everything in Lottie Aylor’s life. “The Lord spared me to see 91. None of my brothers or sisters lived to be 70. He’s kept me for a purpose.”
Lottie Matthews was born and raised in Rappahannock and Mrs. Martha Ball Buckner Fletcher did the raising. Miss Mattie lived until she'was 107, and in the 77 years the two were together, the caregiver roles may have changed; neither ever forgot who did the raising.
Lottie’s mother lived and worked on Miss Mattie’s mother’s farm and that’s where Lottie was born. When she was eight, she came to live with the Fletchers at Thornton Hill in Sperryville.
Bv then. Miss Mattie and her husband William Meade Fletcher, a lawyer, had two children, Nancy and Jim Bill. Nancy liked to read and that left the playing to Lottie and Jim Bill.
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