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A Tribute to My Mother
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Divorced at 26 and shot
at the young age of 29 and raising two small children while in a wheelchair
could not have been easy. I know she had a hard life and I know I didn’t make
it any easier on her but she did a damn good job all in all and she managed to
live long enough to see us raised and to see her grandchildren.
Although she very seldom left her home, she was well loved by the kids in the neighborhood. When my brothers kids were growing up in the same house, the kids in the neighborhood got to calling her “Mamo”. A name R.D., my nephew called her since he was really little.
When I was a young girl I remember many times in the Spring, kids would bring her baby birds that fell from the nest and she would hand feed them…some even lived and became family pets.
Here is a link to a pdf of the newspaper article written on what happened to my mother in 1962. This incident affected me and my brother very profoundly. For me, I was always very intensely proud of how my mother showed her strength living with the limitations of her life.
I love you mama…rest in peace…finally
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