My mother was a beautiful person inside and out, before HD robbed her of so much. She always reminded my sister, brother and I of a “Pollyanna” type person…. always finding the good in everything and everyone and never being negative. She was a happy person and tried to live her life that very same way until HD started creeping slowly in and changed her personality. Besides her family and especially her grandchildren, her love of God and her church were her mainstay in life, and she gave to God by singing in her church choir for over 20 years. She had to discontinue this when the HD symptoms became too much for her to concentrate, drive or walk.  

Some of her favorite memories were the two trips she and my father took to Hawaii~she always said she hoped we would get to go their one day to experience “ a little bit of heaven on earth.” Because of this as her disease progressed we tried to think of ways to recollect some of her beautiful memories of her life before it was too late.  We had a “Hawaiian” party for her outside on her deck in the summer of 2000. We had flowers in our hairs, leis around our neck (even their dog had one!) and we just had a grand time and she smiled all day.  

As the disease came to it’s final days, my mother’s “Pollyanna” attitude was still evident and to the very last week she tried her best to smile and to make sure we were all okay. She left us while we were all sleeping~as she would have wanted to do to spare us of watching her go~that was my mother. We love and miss her but have many memories within our hearts to cherish forever until we meet again.  

Written by your children with love, Jeanne Wilson, Kathy Bennick & Clark Lutz