Three generations: Margaret, Bill and Laura

Margaret Agnes (Revak) Danby

Born in Kansas City, Kansas, on August 9, 1919;

Daughter of Slovak immigrants;

Dairy farm raised, in Phillips, Wisconsin;

Sibling to 13;

Child of the depression;

Domestic in Winnetka, Illinois;

Wife;

Soldier’s wife;

Mother of two sons;

Stenographer;

Widow in 1993;

Grandmother in 1995;

Victim of dementia;

Died of pneumonia in Phillips, on March 26, 2013, aged 93.

My mother loved my brother and me all of our lives, and she worked all of hers — until the veil of dementia drew over her. 

There is no way that I can express her love and her unceasing care for my brother and me. So too, I cannot express my love and my debt to her.

Thank you, Mama

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I would like to extend my many thanks to all you who have

expressed your condolences, and particularly for all of your

kind words in remembering my mother.