years old.
Love and miss you, Mom.
1. She would do anything for her kids including supporting us as we move out of state or
country.
2. She is willing to change even if she hates it.
3. She loves Mexican food and would eat it every day if she could.
4. She makes a great brunch and the best breakfast potatoes.
5. She moved away to college the same day I did.
6. She looks back at places where she's lived and remembers so much good in the past.
7. She traveled out of the country for the first time in 2009 and walked on The Great
Wall of China.
8. She loves the colors beige and blue.
9. She loves to rearrange furniture so that every time I go back home things are always
the same but a little different.
10. She lives with chronic pain.
11. She is a survivor.
12. She loves being a grandmother.
13. She lost her beautiful wedding ring snorkeling in Hawaii and still thinks about it there
in the sand somewhere.
14. She drove me to LA after college to help me start my life in the big city.
15. She loves chocolate but has been willing to give it up.
16. She has a getting-ready-for-bed routine that lasts at least a hour.
17. She hates it when her kids tease her.
18. She loves to eat popcorn at night, a habit both of her daughters have inherited.
19. She is not fond of exercise but completed a triathlon.
20. She can't carry a tune.
21. She made a baby book for me when I graduated from high school to make up for
never making one for me when I was a baby.
22. She used to grind her own wheat and bake her own bread.
23. She spent endless hours in gyms, at courts and on fields watching her kids and
grandkids play soccer, baseball, football, tennis, basketball, volleyball, wrestle or run
track/cross-country.
24. She hates most Japanese food.
25. She loves a good burger and fries.
26. She reads books and promptly forgets all about them.
27. She is not afraid to apologize.
28. She gets stuck watching a lot of sports and loves to hear stories to help her care
about the players.
29. She loves to spoil her grandchildren.
30. She never drinks or smokes but she swears.
31. She has an amazing laugh.
32. She always made holidays special for us every birthday, New Year, Valentine's Day,
Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
33. She remembers the train ride her family took from Ohio to California when she was a
little girl.
34. She has lived in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Alta, Bend, and Portland.
35. She is proud of her family but doesn't know how proud her family is of her.
36. She is proud to be a feminist and showed me how to be a proud feminist.
37. She is always looking to be a better person mentally, physically, and spiritually.
38. She loves discussing politics, books, movies and tv shows.
39. She is a fighter: strong-willed, and brutally honest.
40. She leaves a strong impression on everyone she meets and will be with me always.
Bend Bulletin Obituary
Memorial Program and Obituary by Noriko Nakada
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