{"id":2930,"date":"2017-01-20T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T23:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2017-01-20T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T23:48:43","slug":"in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s taken me a while to decide whether or not to write this, but I’ve decided to go ahead. This blog is mainly about quilting, though there are the “and more …” bits, too. This is definitely not about quilting. My husband and I were away recently when we had word\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not entirely unexpected\u00a0\u2014\u00a0that my 91-year-old mother had died. She’d developed dementia in the past several\u00a0years and was living in a home in Tucson. Given her age and state of health, perhaps death could be considered a\u00a0blessing. At any rate, this photo was taken when she was still working as a school secretary, so it’s not exactly recent, as you might guess.<\/p>\n

Mom grew up in England and immigrated to the US in order to marry my father, her first husband, whom she’d met during World War II. They later divorced, and she eventually remarried; she outlived both of her husbands.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This next photo was taken much earlier than the other, as you can probably deduce from the clothing and the black\/white photography. It was taken at Fort Sheridan, IL, where my twin sister and I were born. At this point, Mom hadn’t yet become a US citizen, but she did that as soon afterwards as she was allowed.<\/p>\n

Rest in peace, Mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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