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Three generations: Margaret, Bill and Laura |
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.