She had a passion for making quilts, even for the homeless, embroidering and being a homemaker.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, infant daughter Mary Alice, two brothers; Thomas
and her twin Robert. Sisters; June Bobo, Virginia Smoot, and Sr. Mechtilde, O.S.B., great-granddaughter,
Mariah McInnes, and great-grandson Samuel Matthews.
She is survived by her five sons; Thomas (Rosalie), Larry (Linda), Michael (Donna), Andrew, Alan (Lorelei),
ten grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren, her sister
Annette Hollihand as well as many nieces and nephews.