Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons

An installation by Marie Watt commemorating Northwest servicemen and -women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Anna C. Nelson
1895–2001
Submitted by Matt Franklin

She was cool. She drank a Manhattan every evening, and, occasionally, a Coors out of the can with a straw. When she emigrated from Sweden in 1912, her father tried to arrange passage on the Titanic, but tickets were sold out. She witnessed an amazing amount of history, she made fantastic Swedish meatballs and everyone loved her. She was the life of the party.