Goodbye Mama

My “Mama” (pronounced Maw-Maw)- my mom’s mom- passed away in February. We went home for her funeral, and it was very hard saying goodbye to her. Not only was she my last grandparent, but she was an extraordinary woman. She raised her 8 children on her own while working at a glove factory, and then a tape factory. When I was younger, my cousins and I would always spend the night there on Saturdays, 4 or 5 at a time (there are 21 of us, so there is/was never a dull moment!). Mama would always get up at 5:00 to get Sunday Lunch started before church...everyone ate lunch at Mama’s on Sundays. She would make us homemade donuts for breakfast, and homemade play dough to play with. She always had the dum-dum suckers in her candy jar, and made cinnamon strips for us from her leftover piecrust. Goodbye Mama...you will be missed by many.

These photos were taken over the summer.