Category Archives: Family Stories
In going through the papers of her late husband, Amy Wellborn came across this column Michael Dubriel wrote in 1995 entitled Remembering the Dead. If my great-grandfather was present when visiting his wife’s grave, he would speak to her in his native Polish in a quiet voice as though he was informing her of the [...]
Close to 30,000,000 people were killed by the communists in the USSR, not including deaths from the Second World War. Russian civil war (1917-1922) 9,000,000 deaths. Soviet Union under Stalin (1924-1953) 20,000,000 deaths. Jon Utley’s father was one of them. Jon was only two years old when his father, Arcadi Berdichevsky, a Russian trade official, [...]
Siobhan Kilfeather was a beautiful professor of English and Irish Literature at Queen’s University, Belfast and happily married with two very young children when she was diagnosed with the deadly skin cancer melanoma. Nine months later, x-rays showed that the cancer had reached her lungs. She decided to go on a pilgrimage to Lourdes and [...]
Married 58 years, they die 90 minutes apart of different causes in the same hospital . “I’m fully convinced my dad called my mom and said, ‘Let’s go.’” Even death couldn’t keep this couple apart
A doctor who works at Columbia Presbyterian scammed his 92-year-old mother out of nearly $1 million. Minnie Motz, the mother who worked her whole life as a librarian never thought her Jewish doctor son would leave her virtually penniless and on the brink of eviction. Son-Burned Dr. Robin Motz, an internist took control of his [...]
Daneille Trussoni wrote a memoir about her relationship with her father who was a tunnel rat in Vietnam while she was living in Sofia, Bulgaria, after extensive research but had few conversations with family members or her father after he developed throat cancer Sean Wilsey wrote The way most memoirists have handled still-living people has been to outlive them and then publish…. Yet Wilsey interviewed just about everyone he could think of to write about his mother who when she read the manuscript felt betrayed but was big enough to say Sean, it’s such an accurate portrait of so many people that I know that I’ve had to conclude it must be an accurate portrait of me, too.
A new movie starring Sally Field and Ben Chaplin called Two Weeks, now in limited release, tells the story about what happens to a family when the one person who holds it together can’t hold on anymore…. At the Hamptons Film Festival last month, a woman in the audience said that she had never talked about what happened when her brother died, and she was amazed at how similar “Two Weeks” was to what happened to her.
Andrea Peyser was there called it a Wacky D-List Weepapoolsa and reports: Anna Nicole Smith showed up for her funeral – in a church perched inside a shopping mall – with her coffin decked out in what looked like a giant, pink sequined pasty……. Things kicked off with a vengeance at nearly 11 a.m., when some scary hired muscle men unfurled an actual red carpet onto the parking lot of the Mount Horeb Baptist Church, nicely located next to a convenience store.
Her son Leopold Eissler, 39, said he had gone to visit his mother shortly before Christmas only to be told she was dead and had then spent the festive period organising her funeral…. “I could not believe it when she walked in through the front door and the whole family were all sitting around dressed in black and planning the funeral.”
Thief Steals Video Dying Mother Made for Son Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, Melanie Worthington was concerned that her 5-year-old son Theo might not remember her after she was gone. “When Melanie found out she was sick, she wanted to use the camcorder to make tapes for her little boy,” her mother Carla Worthington said.
