We are now going to concentrate on Mom's later life and the Alzheimer's that she had for more than a dozen years. One of the saddest lines in Scripture comes after Our Lord has told the Rich Young Man to sell what he has, give the money to the poor, and...
But there is something that means much more to me than these motherly acts and things of toughness that I ahve menti0ned. It is something that Mom said to me that goes to the essence of her motherhood. When I was in junior high, I read something in the...
Mom and Dad celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1991. Dad had Alzheimers by then, but long before the celebration took place, he kept talking about what he called "the big party". Dad died in 1995. About ten years later, Mom had...
Mom was always our biggest fan, and so she was at all of Anne and Jim's 4-H square dance competitions even though they were only on the "B" squad, and at the ceremony at Loretto Heights College when Anne was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship....
This beautiful birth announcement 90+ years old is a wonderful way to start our train ride. It tells of Mom's tiny fingers easing the pain of the hearts of her parents and other relatives. At her birth, Mom was seen to be at the service...
