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My Mother is a very
strong lady. You'd have to be to raise 5 children. There were
times when we were growing up that my father was out to sea (He was in the
Navy) so there'd just be my mother, my sisters, my brothers and
me.
She has survived
through my father's heart trouble and eventual death in 1980, the death of
my youngest sister at the age of 45 in 1996 to a heart attack, and
then last year her oldest grandson (my son) passed away at the age
of 35 to endocarditis. I was
afraid that would be the last of what she could handle. But thank
God I was wrong as she continued to prove yet again how strong she
is. And, now her toughest fight of all is being waged.
She was diagnosed with in-operable lung cancer in January of this year.
She is facing this with all the determination and will to live as she has
everything else that life has thrown her way. If sheer
determination can do it, I know she will beat this also.
In addition to
raising 5
children she has 17 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. You can just imagine the happy confusion when we all get
together.
She is the type of
women who will go out of her way to help a friend in need, and family is
everything to her. She is the type of women I hope my children will
think I am.
Mom, I Love
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