07/30/2026
My beautiful little mama left this earth after a long battle with Parkinson’s and dementia. She was a fighter and the strongest person I know. She had more falls than I can count, broke her neck twice, and had bruises and bumps along the way, but no matter what, she would get right back up and keep going.
My heart is broken, and she took a huge piece of it with her. She was my best friend, the person I told everything to, my cheerleader and biggest fan. She was my constant, my unconditional love, and I learned how to love from her.
For the last three years, after my dad passed, she has been at Western Reserve, a memory care facility in Medina, Ohio. The nurses and aides who cared for her are truly angels on this earth. The love and care they gave my mom is beyond anything we could have asked for. She always had to be watched closely, because the second you turned your back she was up and off on an adventure, which explains most of those falls. The staff had a whole rotation just to keep up with her.
One by one they came by to say goodbye to her, even on their days off, once they heard she was dying. They loved her too. She made them laugh and would always eat everyone’s lunch that they brought from home. Ha. She loved her sweets and chips.
That was the hardest goodbye I’ve ever had. It’s almost hard to breathe, it hurts so deeply. But she was surrounded by so much love, and she is at peace and no longer suffering.
We will be having a private service, with a celebration of life to come at a later date.
Until we meet again, little Mama, I will miss you so deeply. Our talks, our laughs, shopping and karaoke, and just being together, was my favorite thing. Fly free, little Mama.
