There she is, Rutha, Mama, lover of her children's soul. Here she is in the center of her five daughters. I look at us and wonder if we all remember how she poured her heart into us during some very difficult times in her life as a single mom of seven. Me, the oldest on the right and Marguerite, the youngest on the left and Alcenia, Mildred, K'netha in between. She loved us and did her best to provide for us. Standing with Lorenzo as he graduated from Bethune Cookman College. This task, of going to her children's graduation, she repeated many times as she watch us all graduate from high school, then from college. This legacy lives in each of her children. Me, as a mother of three, and a grandmother of ten, great-grandmother of one, I have been on field trips, on grade discussions, on college registrations, on family trips all modeling actions the single moms of Rutha Mae, Druscilla and Chelsey. Ask all of us, Alcenia with her son, Little Tuck and Nikki and grandchildren, Mildred with her sons Eric and Shawn and her grandchildren, Marguerite and her children and grandchildren, K'netha and her children, Lorenzo and Jimmy with their children. Thank you, Rutha, and all matriarchs of this family, for not only showing us the way, but sacrificing to provide the way! We are so proud to be your offsprings. Amen.
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