IN CLOSING
I have many more household heroes whom I will have to write about next time – my brother, my sister, my husband, my other son and daughter, my sister-in-law, an aunt, friends…
But I can’t close without mentioning my mother.
Verna Marie Fogelsong Kuhn was born in 1921 and lived 61 years on this earth. If she ever compromised one of her principles (and she had many!) I never once witnessed it the 28 years I was given with her. Although she stopped going to church forever at age 48, she was the most spiritually pure person I’ve ever known. She was utterly incapable of gossip. She embodied the term “charitable construction.” She was a true adult.
Although she could have been almost anything, she was only ever our mother. But she was outstanding at it. She was a hero of the highest order. Possibly a saint.
I have many more household heroes whom I will have to write about next time – my brother, my sister, my husband, my other son and daughter, my sister-in-law, an aunt, friends…
But I can’t close without mentioning my mother.
Verna Marie Fogelsong Kuhn was born in 1921 and lived 61 years on this earth. If she ever compromised one of her principles (and she had many!) I never once witnessed it the 28 years I was given with her. Although she stopped going to church forever at age 48, she was the most spiritually pure person I’ve ever known. She was utterly incapable of gossip. She embodied the term “charitable construction.” She was a true adult.
Although she could have been almost anything, she was only ever our mother. But she was outstanding at it. She was a hero of the highest order. Possibly a saint.