Happy Birthday Mom

Today would have been my mother’s 94th birthday.  She passed away four years ago, a few days before her 90th.

She was mentor and role model to her daughters and grand-daughters.  She taught us to cook and sew and that there was nothing we couldn’t do.  She had learned early to be a skilled seamstress and later learned building and cabinet making skills.  She could fix most anything and could identify most plants.  I could never figure where she got all of her knowledge.  She would say “there is always a book”, and she read a lot.

She graduated high school during the depression and had no opportunity to go to college.  That changed in her early forties.  She entered a community college and then went on to earn her bachelors degree from UCLA.  After taking a year off she entered UCLA’s school of Social Welfare and earned her MSW at age 50.  She worked 12 years as a clinical social worker at LA County Department of Health.

 

Happy Birthday Mom, we miss you!