My angel mother

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Rob,

Thank you for that loving tribute to your mother. Mine died three years ago at age 94. She was a great lover of history also, and I wish that I had paid more attention to some of the things she told me - especially family history.

She was also the one who made sure that I got a college education in an era where women were supposed to have MRS degrees instead of MAs. Much of my college education was started with Roosevelt dimes and Franklin half-dollars that she started saving when I was a tadpole.