Mother

The things that Mother did without to raise 15 kids is almost beyond belief. I don't know how she kept her sanity with all the hard times that really outnumbered the easy times. And she had chances to have had a different life altogether when she was young. I know she turned away Ernie Kovac's who later became a TV star when she was working at that diner in Trenton.

I'm glad she lived a long life and got to see how big her family was becoming.