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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Marjorie Jean Ficke
1922–1991
Submitted by Dave Watt

My Aunt Jean worked as a domestic childcare provider all her life. Her gifts were a kind and loving spirit, rather than the intelligence and ambition our society prizes. We need to remember people like Aunt Jean because in our culture they are too easily undervalued, ignored or forgotten.