Ethelyn V. Besk Martin

Grandmama:

It was an honor to help carry your body to its resting place, as you carried so many of us over the years. As we stood around you for one last time, we thought of how you stood on that same patch of ground over fifty years ago, newly widowed, with three young daughters to raise. You pieced together what was left of the life you'd known and quilted it into a continuing life of beauty and wonder!

You brought numerous children through childhood struggles and traumas,...