The shelters here are clean and well-staffed and we're ready to take people in.

Mother never pushed him to change, but she was really happy when he did.

The church was the center of her life.

She was there until the week before she died.

I was floored by the liturgy and thought 'OK, God, you're really putting a challenge before us,' .

They think it was a heart attack or a stroke.

Mother was the brains of the place.

We'd get in the car to go to the beach and mother would have rosary. My sister and I knew that was the way it was going to be. The only question was whether she would do it before we left or while we were going down the road.