My Sweet Beautiful Mother: Carol Maurine Strom Lyman Harrison (1945-1996)
Survivor of five occurrences of Medulloblastoma brain tumors over a 23 year
period!
Her courage and dignity throughout her illness can be a candle
of inspiration and light of hope
for all those who are suffering with brain tumors!
She was a (C)reative (A)rtistic (R)adiant (O)pen (L)oving woman
who is greatly missed by all the lives that she touched!
Born January 24 to Wallace and Glenda Andrews Strom in Salina, Utah. She graduated from Granite High School in 1963, with honors in artistic studies and dance. She was a very artistic and creative woman who enjoyed painting, gardening, sewing, cooking, crafts, socializing and traveling to many places (her favorite Maui, she visitied many times). She was always passionate about life; from starting her own business to tackling computers, she was never afraid to learn. Fiercely independent, uniquely loyal and forever compassionate, Carol was a very precious and rare person. She was a very loving, supportive and caring mother, wife, sister, aunt and friend!
She believed there will be a cure for brain tumors in my lifetime - let us pray this will be true!
A million times we have needed you - a million times we have cried.
If love alone could have saved you - you never would have died.
In tears we watched you sinking - we watched you fade away.
Our hearts were nearly broken - you fought so hard to stay.
In life we loved you dearly - in death, we love you still.
Within our hearts you hold a place - no one else can ever fill.
It broke our hearts to see you go - but you did not go alone.
For a part of us went with you - the day God called you home.
-Author Unknown
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-Kahlil Gibran
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