Mae- loved daughter, dear sister, loving mother, forever giving grandmother, even more giving great grandmother, caring aunt, loving niece, thoughtful friend, and so much more. Mae was a woman with such a wonderful heart that she was loved by everyone she crossed paths with. It was her incredible strength and honest love that so many loved about her. She fought for life, I think, for her son Robert, until the end. As the independent woman that she was, even living in a nursing home for the last few years, she refused to show her son how much physical pain she was in. With so much love she had for her son Robert, she would have traveled to the end of the world and back for him. You could see that in her eyes when she looked at him.

So many battles she had endured in her lifetime. She struggled through the deaths of her parents, the deaths of six brothers and sisters, the passing of her husband Henry (Popop), and the hardest of all the death of her beloved son Henry. Through all of this hardship, Mae endured and lived on. Just like she would hope for all of her loved ones when she is gone.

Nanny to her grand and great grand children. Grand children including-- Pattiann, Richard, Diane, Steven, Robert Jr., and Susan. Great grand children including--Jillian, Nicholas, Kaitlyn, Emily, and Alexis.

Nanny was an overwhelmingly giving grandmother. That was her love shining through everytime she saw any of us. Even during the last few years when she didn't have the means to go to a store and buy something, she used what resources she had just to give something. Usually it was bananas that she got from her meals that she saved just to give to her grandchildren and her son. It may have not seemed like much but there was so much more love behind those bananas than anything she had ever given.