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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Rose Gardella
1924–1988
Submitted by Mark R. Smith

Mother, activist, social worker and master gardener presiding over a community garden in East Harlem, NYC. She cared for everyone equally and lived out all of her community’s tragedies and successes. At 65, she died of a stroke. Our daughter is named after her.