My Most Honorable Person

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Everyone wants to be some body. Everyone wants to discover a country, end world peace, invent the next type of music, and be the next president. Just because someone does an extraordinary or honorable thing does not mean that they are an honorable person. Some of the most extraordinary people in the world are mothers. But many people don’t want to be “just a mother”. A lot of people think that once you have a kid you’re just another mother, that you are just ordinary. Well my grandmother, Doris Spigelmyer, was mainly a mother for most of her life. But she was far from ordinary.
Doris Bradley was born on December 3, 1938. When she was in her late teens she married Gerald Spigelmyer and became Mrs. Doris Spigelmyer. In 1957 she became a mother
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Sweeter than the roses. Covered all over from head to toe, covered all over in sweet violets.” This is just the start to a Song she used to sing all the time. Grandma loved to sing. This gives us our next word given to us by my Aunt Beth whimsical. When I think of that word, I think of imagination and creativity. Grandma definitely had both of those things. She seemed to know an unlimited amount of funny poems and songs. At one point, she and one of her good friends were working together at another building project like the one mentioned before. During the time they were working on it, they had written a song about the project that everyone was working on! Apart from the songs and poems, Mike Wagner, along with many other ones, mentioned that she loved to read and always seemed to be getting whisked away in a book. Reading so much is what probably gave her all the good ideas for the songs, stories, and poems she would write. One more thing to highlight about Grandma in this department is that she had a thing for number sequences. She loved it when the date would say something like 6-7-89. For instance, Uncle Mike was born on July 7th on grandma and grandpa’s 7th anniversary. People say you can’t control when you have a baby, but this fact shows differently! This may not seem very important, but it was part of her quirks and her creative

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