Rachel Mom E Green Marler

How do I write in a few paragraphs about my mother? She was 82 when she passed away. 82 seems a long time when you are young. 82 is a moment in time now that she is gone. So in a moment in time I will try to describe my mother and her life. My mother was born in Cleveland, Tennessee July 24, 1930. She worked as a child doing many things but especially picking strawberries and cotton. Her family was very poor and rural people. My mother had many, many southern witticisims. I always marveled at the simplicity of her southern wisdom. My mother moved her 5 children to California around 1964. She wanted us to have a better life than she did. My mother always worked. Her life always was her children and her job. She raised us thru the 70's, she raised us thru the 80's. Those were turbulent times for her. I remember as a 14 year old I noticed her little cloth shoes. I realized then that my mother bought 5 sets of school clothes, 5 sets of school pictures, 5 sets of valentines, she packed 5 lunches. She did everything in a set of 5. I knew then why her little shoes were ragged. I can remember my mother putting me on a counter top and teaching me many songs. Most of them are ballads that I remember to this day. Our mother was always there for us and we always needed her. Her love for us was unconditional. My mother never had much money but it seemed that if we needed something she always had it. My mothers life was very hard but she had no regrets. Our only brother passed away at 17 and my mom thru all of her own pain stayed strong for each of us. I marveled then at her strength. All thru the years we lived close to our mother and if we did not live close enough to see her everyday we talked to her everyday. She stayed in each of our lives daily. My mom was a character and was never pretentious. She had an 8th grade education but was the most intelligent woman I have ever known. My mother became very ill in 2008 and her world became so much smaller as time wore on. That was how I saw it. Later I realized that her world was not smaller. Her world was as big as it always was because she had her kids and we were always her world. Our mom suffered thru so much illness and so much pain for a very long time. To me the miracle was that we still had her in our lives after all that she had been thru and suffered from. I realized she stayed with us because of her love and concern for all of us. I wish I had the space as there are so many things unsaid. My mom had her children. Tina, Diane, Lisa, Nancy and my brother Grady (nickname Corkey) but she also had many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. She left us all with the most beautiful legacy of all. The legacy of Love. In a moment in time by the Grace of Our Dear Lord we were blessed with the greatest most beautiful blessing that we could of been bestowed with. The blessing of Our Mother. When my mother passed I will be forever greatful to Hospice for the time they allowed us with our mother. Our tears covered our mother. I thought how she must of glowed before Almighty God, and I realized that my mother was fully clothed in her righeous robes of Love. Altho we cannot see our mother anymore, or hear her voice again she will always live forever in our hearts. We will hear her voice, we will see her smile, we will hear her laugh and we will feel her love always. Altho, our beautiful mother is gone from this world....what she left behind will live on forever and that is what she left to each of us....a Legacy born of Love. We love you mom and will remember you always when we see the Grace of God in the flowers that bloom, in the birds that sing, in the rivers that flow, in the leaves that fall, in the springtime of life....in a moment in time...we will remember you and love you forever.