Abraham Lincoln once said, "Everything I am or hope to be, I owe to my Angel Mother."  I do believe each of my ten siblings would agree to this statement.  We now, literally, have an Angel Mother!

Our Mother, Jeanne Thornbury was a great soul, with a magnanimous heart. She lived her vocation to marriage with her incredibly devoted and generous husband, James Patrick Thornbury (aka JP). She gave everything, her entire body and feminine soul to her 11 children and two miscarried babies. St.Teresa Benedicta once said, "A woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold;" our mother deeply loved all her children, and she also welcomed every person she met into the shelter of her motherly love. Her love was rooted in her motherhood, and we are all infinitely better because of her generous and selfless love.