Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Celebrate Mother's Day

 Today - Sunday, 11 May 2025 -- is Mother's Day.  Our Saturday Night mission from Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun :

1) Sunday, 11 May is Mother's Day in the USA.  Let's celebrate it by showing some of our photos with our mother.  

2)  Extra credit:  What did you call your mother during her life?  What did your children call your mother?  

3)  More extra credit:  Have you written a biography or tribute to your mother?  If so, please share a link if you have one.

4)  Share your photo(s) on your own blog post or in a Facebook or SubStack or BlueSky post.  Leave a link on this blog post to  help us find your Mom photos.

 

Mom, grandma Mary LeSourd Reed, and my sister Betty, 1940.

Mom in 1917

 

Mom on the beach in Pensacola, around 1935

 

Mom and Dad, Pensacola, about 1953

I called my mother "Mom" all my life.  Well, when I was little, it probably more often came out "Mommy."  It got funny when my daughters were little, and asked their grandmother Packard (Mom) what they should call her.   She sat very erect, put her nose a little in the air, and said, "Call me grandmama," with the accent on the first syllable, the "r" trilled in upper-class fashion, and her pinky lifted -- and a twinkle in her eye.  So she was grandmama to our daughters until she shuffled off this mortal coil.

I'm working on a biography of my mother on WikiTree.  I'll spend a little time on it today, probably before going to our older daughter's for Mother's Day cake and ice cream.