My mom (Doris)
and Katja’s mom (Helen) at our wedding (Aug. 1960)
Dear George,
One of the favorite songs in
our family during my childhood began, “Oh be kind to your web-footed friends,
for that duck may be somebody’s mother…”
Another frequent family observation was that the saddest thing you could
ever be was a “motherless Biccus.” (Just what a Biccus was now escapes me.) In any case, these and many other
family colloquialisms made it clear that mothers are by far the most important
beings on earth. Here are just a
few images of important, beloved mothers that I’m thinking about on this
Mother’s Day.
Love,
Dave
Doris with her
kids, Dave, Peter, Steve, and Vicki at our house on the river (ca. 1955)
Helen (right)
with Katja and Katja’s grandmother Anna in Philadelphia (ca. 1942)
Katja with J at
Mt. Airy Park, Cincinnati in Menominee (ca. 1972)
Margie with
Steve and Jennifer (ca. 1973)
Faith with
newborn Chris (ca. 1978)
Vicki with her
youngest kid Abra (ca. 2010)
K with J, V,
and L at home in NOLA (2014)
Katja and Vicki
at our family reunion in Birch Creek (2012)
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