Memories

This site really touches my heart. What a beautiful tribute to a beautiful lady!!! I love seeing photos of Cynthia's life, knowing that she lived it as so few of us (me included) do: to the fullest. The word that always comes to my mind when I think of your mom, Nora, is “vivacious.” She embodied v

As one can easily see from the photo pages, Cynthia was a larger than life sort of person with an unforgetable damatic flair and devious sense of humor, but that certainly wasn't all she was. Over these last years that she lived with us, I will remember her, primarily, for how she was always so swee

My first acquaintance of Cynthia came through the lense of knowing her precious sweet daughter, Nora. She was already a person worth knowing just because of that relationship, but as we had opportunity through the years, I came to know her as a very passionate, hardworking, loving woman that i admi

If you knew my mom, you know she was the life of the party, so it's fitting that her birthday was on the biggest party day of the year. I'm not sure the exact year this photo was taken, but I know I was in middle school, because my mom fashioned my hair just like this when I went to MY biggest

Hey you, I miss you so much. I miss all the laughs we had together. I miss all the trouble we used to get in to and all of the adventures. You always brought a smile to my face. You were rotten, but you were my kind of rotten!!! I remember when I first met you. All I wanted to do was help you and

Among my earliest memories, I was on a stage scanning the faces in a crowd, looking for my mom. I must have been about 4 years old, and there were maybe 10 of us kids on the stage. This was, I think, my first dance recital. I'll never forget the elation of spotting my mom, who must have been near th