Throughout this podcast, we’ve told Anita’s story through the words of her family and friends. Now it’s Anita’s turn. Through a journal she left behind, we explore the last months of Anita’s life, narrated by her granddaughter and namesake, Anita Brown. We want to hear what you think about She Has A Name. Please help us out by filling out a short audience survey: https://www.apmstudios.org/survey
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It was a Sunday, March 7th of 2020 to be exact, when we were being told to hunker down and sequester ourselves from a new virus taking hold, that Antonio made the urgent decision to bring the people closest to him together for homegoing.
Anita Ann Wiley was born Aug.
3, 1958, to Carlene Stafford in O.C.
hill in Detroit, Michigan, marking the beginning of a wonderful childhood as the oldest sibling of an ever expanding family.
At a young age, Anita would join the union of her mother, Carlene, to Leo Wiley Jr.
With love.
A service for his mom, 33 years in the making at the United Memorial Garden Cemetery, the place she'd been all of this time and now her final resting place.
The words for her obituary instinctually poured out of Antonio.
All the things he'd practiced over the years in his head, the things he told himself he'd say if he ever had the chance.
Remembered as a social butterfly whom had a way with words, Anita loved and lived life to the fullest, touching the hearts of many in a positive and meaningful way.
Just about everyone Antonio could get in touch with came childhood friends and associates who wondered all of these years, whatever happened to Anita and family like Frank and Val?
We drove down there and, you know, I can't really explain how I felt.
It was like a little bit of, is it real?
You know, is that her?
You know, I went through all different kind of emotions, you know what I'm saying?
But it really was good.
I mean, it was like closure.