Let's see how many pictures and messages about your Mama we can gather together before Mother's Day! Send them in to contribute@portagelife.com
with a short note about why you love your own Mama, your wife for being a great Mama, or your daughter for learning how to be a great Mama.
Cathy Culp
I have no picture to send but my Mom Gladys Huff came to Portage or should I say GARYTON Indiana in 1928..She and my Dad Jimmie Huff raised 6 Kids me being the youngest. She was always involved in School activities and I can remember her going door to door selling Girl Scout cookies with me 3 years in a row. Mom alwys went out and pounded the pavement for several years collecting money for the Diabetes Association, Cancer association and Heart Association. Moms cooking was fabulous and on Holidays she would make a spread for the entire Family. Her Family she doted on and she was always there for all of us whenever we needed her no matter what. I was with my Mom when she took her last breath from bone cancer which had riddeled her body down to 90 pounds in a years time. I miss her dearly but her memories I savor in my mind..I LOVE YOU MA...HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!..:)
Chris Mahlmann
I did not get to see my mom today as she is not with us anymore, but in a different way I got to see her all over the place this weekend. I saw her big time yesterday when I was down at Illinois State watching my older daughter Nicki graduate from college as a teacher. She is an incredibly determined young woman with great fun spirit, absolute honesty, and goodness about her, and I know my mom is working inside of her every day, and I also know how proud she is today of Nicki, and how loud she was clapping in her goofy manner. She was watching yesterday and always. I saw my mom yesterday in Peyton too, when she gave Nicki a hand made card in an envelope that had coupons on it for 5 free hugs and a dinner out that Dad pays for, and a $5 bill. I could see the corny and funny and giving nature of my mom in the giver and receiver of the gift. I saw my mom this morning in my wife Natalie at church with her family, knowing how important tradition, family, and respect for your mom is. She is strong as steel just like Omi was, and would move mountains on behalf of her kids. I saw it in Arlene who looks after about a zillion grand kids as well as her own kids, and is just happy to have so many of them around her as my mom always was. I saw it in Kitty and Heather who know what is good for their kids, and are confident in how important it is for them to lead their kids in the right direction, whether that makes them a popular mom with their kids or not. My mom had no illusions of being my friend. She was my mom. I miss her with every fiber of my body and would give anything to have her back. I am so incredibly happy that she left so much of herself here when she went on to what is next.