Remembering Mom - It's Been Five Years

Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape (1928-2019) on Thanksgiving Day, 2016.

I'm writing this very early in the morning on Thanksgiving Day, 2024, before I head to Austin, so I guess it is fitting that I'm using a photograph from another Thanksgiving in Austin, in 2016.  Mom looks good in this photo (taken by my brother Mark on my late husband Mark's and my digital single lens reflex camera), despite being in the early stages of the nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia, a form of fronto-temporal degeneration, that would take her life at age 91. 

Next year, NO-vember will have the anniversaries of four family deaths - Dad on the 6th, my maternal grandmother Sara Wolfe Guokas Archibald on the 16th, my maternal aunt Jo Ann (Sister Jean Marie) Guokas on the 23rd, and Mom on the 30th.

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