Mom's Roles

- Daughter, Teacher & Fight Attendant -
    all mentioned by others

- Wife and Mother -
   Married in 1946
   4 children in 9 years 
   Active in our Scouting activities
     as troop leaders and as the GS
     European representative.
   Continued teaching career through
   her children, taught us:
     - values - what is important in
       life
     - Manners/etiquette & hosting 
       through family meals and
       entertaining
     - Geography - through our and 
       Mom & Dad's many travels,
       stopping at road side signs on
       the way.
     - importance of and love of
       family - annual visits to the
       Thorntons and Klickmans in Ohio
     - independence and self reliance -
       by her example of starting over
       each time the family moved.
     - Education - key to success in
       life - a belief shared by Mom
       and Dad
     - Homemaker - making a comfort-
       able place for all of us to
       grow up and return to with
       our children

- Return to Teaching - 
     - Masters from U of A
     - Taught Gifted Children at 
       Vestavia Elementary
     - Taught as a guidance counselor 
       at Brookwood HS
     - She enjoyed these roles tremen-
       dously - meeting students,
       parents and fellow teachers.

- Retired 
     - new roles as a volunteer @
       Hospice into her 90's
       A Poll worker in elections
       A Meals on Wheels delivery
         person
       Children's Hands On Museum

- Friend - many friends she met through travel, she traveled with, she volunteered with or worked with through the years.

Throughout all of these roles she was a church member - for more than 50 years here at St Mark's.  She truly enjoyed the worship, Sunday School Class, fellowship here and the love that you all shared with her especially in her last years.

Thank you for sharing her life with us.

Comments from the worshipers:

Mr Thompson? - who worked with her
  at Brookwood
Bell Gandy - who knew her from Hospice
Dot Powell - who traveled with mom and
  Dad with Dr. Seymour (her husband)
Kim Mitchell ( and her Mother) - a
  student in Mom's Vestavia Gifted
  program and former next door neighbor
A man from School class?