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Sarah Louise

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She was born in 1921.  Married my grandfather in 1934.  They raised seven kids - six boys.  My dad is the second oldest.  She was a housewife and mother.  She had the biggest heart you'd ever hope to encounter.  She lived her life with integrity and honesty and above all else LOVE.  She imparted the importance of those things into her children.  I was her first granddaughter.  She taught me selflessness and the idea of family first by her actions.  She was incredibly smart.  My dad told me once that she was probably smarter than my grandfather was...who was an engineer and ran a big corporations and was an incredibly intelligent man in his own right.  But she always wanted a big family.  And my grandfather, an only child, happily complied and then proceeded to work to support his family and put seven kids through bachelor's degrees.   My youngest is her namesake.  I have a cousin who is also named after her. ...