Ode for My Firecracker Mother
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On July 4, 1921, Gladys Lucille Harmon (Heins)
was born in Lamar, Colorado.
She was a sweet soul,
forged in the turmoil and disruption
of the Dust Bowl,
Depression,
WW 2,
and then reuniting
with her husband
after two years of total
war silence.
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We lost her 46 years ago this year.
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She was a great mother,
who would move mountains
for her son when he was a boy
in Gillett and Oshkosh, WI.
She had a sweetness and generosity
about her,
but she was also
a firecracker
befitting her birthday.
Steve Heins