A Portrait of my Mom

Mom would have been 114 years old February 28th, 2024. She wrote the last chapter in her book of life at age 96.

The church was filled at her funeral service, a testament of her good life and many friends. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren sang and played beautiful music on the piano and violin, as a final fitting tribute to her and the great love of music in our family nurtured by her for a lifetime.

The daughter of a funeral director always needing a pianist, she began young as a church pianist and filled that role for about 84 years, accompanying singers, funeral quartets, and child...