84. My mother Ruth Allen Miles, opera singer, teacher, wonderful mother!
I have written about my mother, Ruth, in blogs: # 80, # 73 (mostly pictures) # 33, # 30, about when she was on the very first extraction mission, # 24, of a Christmas she had as a child, # 16, what I learned from her about controlling anger, # 7, telling of "The Suet Pudding Story", including my dad and Grandma Allen, and # 6, the story about "Closing my book" , which was when she was taking care of a dear friend as she was passing from this life. All these stories are great, but I want to give a synoposis of the early part of her life today. Today I've just been to the funeral of a lady who lived to be 95, and the viewing of a man who was Wayne's first principal here in St. George, when we moved down here in 1981. It makes you think about your own family who are gone, and also wonder what people may say about you in your own funeral! I will tell more of her parents and grandparents later. My mother was born Ruth Allen, the 8th child of John Butl...