Chick-fil-A honors Morristown woman and loyal fan

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (WATE)– in case you’ve been on facebook recently, you can have visible a submit that has touched the heart of many people.

Beth Ann Smith wrote approximately her grandmother, who surpassed away lately. She wrote about her grandmother’s favorite part of the summer time became while she may want to get a peach milkshake from Chick-fil-A.

Smith says she has a ton of first rate memories with her grandmother, Faye Rogers.

“the first thing approximately my grandmother that I reflect onconsideration on it, after my grandfather died while i used to be six, while i might get unhappy or when i might get discouraged or be missing him, a sure-fireplace manner to get me out of the blues changed into to play with flour. She would placed me on the kitchen counter with a bag of flour and measuring cups and simply allow me play till my heart’s content,” Smith recalled.

Smith said her grandmother Faye became one of 4 kids.

“Her oldest sister Merle made scrumptious selfmade peach ice cream,” she said.

It become the gold standard for his or her circle of relatives, and not anything in comparison to it, she said. At least till summer season treats came to Chick-fil-A.

“after we located peach milkshakes from Chick-fil-A, my grandmother whenever she drank one might take a large sip and the primary element she would say turned into ‘it’s like ingesting merle’s ice cream through a straw,” Smith stated.

It became the simplest aspect she desired for her birthday last 12 months.

“final year for her 97th birthday on July 28th, we took a cake, we took plant life, and she couldn’t have cared less approximately the cake or about the flora. We positioned that milkshake in the front of her and she drank and turned into so excited,” Smith said.

Beth Ann snapped a photograph of her grandmother taking part in the milkshake — not understanding it was one of the last times she might have a danger to drink one.

She posted that identical picture on Chick-fil-A’s fb page when they introduced the peach milkshake changed into coming back this summer time. In return, Chick-fil-A despatched Smith a box of gift cards so she may want to get as many milkshakes as her coronary heart dreams.

“It blew me away that any person could pass that extra mile,” Smith said.

At the bottom of the container turned into a published picture of her grandmother consuming her peach milkshake in a peach-colored body. 

“when she died sincerely, there has been someday i used to be missing her a lot and that i had the idea that there is no quantity of flower inside the international that might assist me now not omit her as tons today,” Smith said. 

However, there may be enough peach milkshakes to assist her experience in the direction of her grandmother this summer. Faye Rogers might had been ninety eight at the end of July.