Cleaned Up Pic of Mom In Her 20's

 This pic of Mom (Judy) would've been taken around 1967 or 1968 I believe.

Mom was going through cosmetology school at the time, and would be in that field for 15 years after graduation.

My sister Lori, brother Jeff, and I all grew up in and around "beauty salons," as they were called at the time.

Happy Birthday Mom!

It's been nearly 17 years since Mom left the planet. Here are a few photos of her in her younger days. I kind of like the celebratory mood in each, almost as if she were getting ready to go to her birthday party in each picture, and celebrating with her grandchildren in the last one.

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Mom in the 1950's

Mom, early 1960's

Mom, late 1960's

Mom, early 1990's

Mom from November Twenty-Sixth, 2000

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Issue # 37-Sunday
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Title of Article:
Letter To The Editor-Mike

Author:
Judy Oberbruner

Article:
Hi
If there ever was a time to start a movement this is it. This young man
needs an attorney to go at the system tooth and nail. Actually a public plea
would help. Start a Free Mike campaign even if leaflets need to be printed
and plastered all over the country. This sounds like a clear case of system
abuse.

He won't survive with out that kind of help.

Call and re call TV, newspapers, celebrities, legislators, governor, any
one you can think of.

Use any legal means possible.

I have worked in institutions and know if they have a judges order they can
medicate at will.

Judy Oberbruner

The Pearl Of Sorrow...

...is a wound that never fully heals,

For even if Odin's Raven were to tear it from your beating heart like a bug
and fly away with it,

There is still the empty gap in your breast that fills in with the scar
tissue of a love gone missing from your life.

The Universe is filled with galaxies of love and light fleeing a void.

Dark energy, indeed.

Dan

Aunt Felicia...

I remember Mom found Gramma, her biological mother, and Gramma had adopted another girl later on. This is my Aunt Felicia when she was 15. She is 11 months older than me, so I was about 14 when this pic was taken.

Dan

Thinking of Mom tonight. It would've been her birthday yesterday. I think it would've been 66. She passed on in early 2003. It's hard to believe it's been almost seven years now.

I wonder if Kat comes here often or at all any more. She was one of Mom's best friends online for a few years at the end. They were always in cahoots, cooking up some kind of social activism for the disabled online.

I hear from Kat every now and then on email, maybe I'll remind her of this site. *Ring, Ring*

Something between the two of them.

Miss ya Mom. We all think of you often.

Dan