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June 25th, the day after my oldest son’s birthday will mark the anniversary of my mother-in laws death. She battled Ovarian/Cervical Caner for a few years. Cancer has struck our family a few times. I also lost my mother on June 21st of 2005 to Stomach Cancer. It was devastating. My mother & mother-in- law were both very strong women who worked very hard for their families. I honestly didn’t think I would ever get over losing my mother; I was only 28 when she passed. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of her.

I soon turned to my mother-in- law for the support and motherly love that I was missing from my own mother. When we learned that her Cancer was in a terminal stage, I just couldn’t believe we were going through this all over again. My husband and his mother were very close; I think that was 1 of the many things that attracted me to him. He tried so hard to exhibit this amazing strength on the outside, while he was grieving on the inside.

It is very difficult raising young children without the support you would get from grandparents. While my boys have to grow up without their grandmothers, we will do everything in our power to make sure they know how amazing their grandmothers were.

My family has found great support and a connection with others who have lost loves ones to Cancer by participating in our local ‘Relay for Life’.

In Loving Memory of Grandma Joe & Grandma Pat

Always,
Shanta