Share Your Maurer Memories
Mother’s Day is May 13th! What better way to show the women in your life you care than making a donation to The Maurer Foundation to support breast health? During the month of May, donors can write a tribute or special memory and we’ll post it here, on our Maurer Memories page. We’ll also send a note to the special women via mail or email including your tribute. Check out some of the great Maurer Memories already shared.
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On Mother’s Day we especially miss our amazing Mom more than she could ever imagine. She never considered her glass half full – it was always overflowing. Her warmth, wit, wisdom, patience and that French-Canadian accent are etched in our minds and hearts forever. We’ve learned from her love, been motivated by her spirit, and changed by the 90 years she shared with us. Years ago we gave her a framed print with dried flowers that hung on her wall and simply said, “If mothers were flowers, I’d pick you.”
—Louise, The Maurer Foundation volunteer, about her mother
My Little Sister, MaryJo—A special lady with a beautiful attitude and the most unselfish person I know. She gave so much of herself in a quiet little way. If you knew her, you loved her. And what a sense of humor!! She taught me to Love, Give, Hope and Laugh.
—Angela, about her sister who passed away from breast cancer at the age of 48
My mom has shown me that being a mother is a gift. I continue to look forward to the day that I become a mother so that I can have the type of relationship my mother and I have. She has proven to be how influential a mother is to their daughter and the importance of teaching a child by example and not only by words.
—Tammy, about her mother, The Maurer Foundation Founder Dr. Virginia Maurer
I was fortunate to have been raised by a beautifully passionate lady named Anne Pace. My mom was everyone’s mom and spent much of her time helping kids do homework and ensuring they always had a warm meal. She lost her battle with breast cancer and taught me how to stay alive. It is because of her,that my heart and my passion is with the Maurer Foundation. She now lives with every class I teach. XOXOXO.
—Patti, The Maurer Foundation educator, about her mother
My mother is a 15 year breast cancer survivor. She is my best friend, and next to my husband, the most important person in my life. Her positive outlook through dealing with surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and the toll this disease takes on your body physically and emotionally is inspiring to me. She has stayed upbeat through it all. She swims, plays golf and is an overall very active person, and from her stories, I’ve learned to be a strong person myself. For this reason, my mother is my hero.
—Susan, The Maurer Foundation educator, about her mother
When I was growing up people would always ask me if I was going to be a surgeon like my mother. But Mom never asked that or tried to influence what I was deciding to do. The only thing she told me with great sincerity is that she loved getting up every morning. She loved going to the office, being with her patients, and working with the foundation. She told me I needed to figure out what it was that made me as happy as her career made her and that is what I should be doing with my life. In her own subtle way she impressed upon my sister and I that it is not what we do with our lives but how we do it that is most important. That piece of advice, the way my mom sees the world and the people around her is the best and really the only way I can describe who my mother is and how she has shaped the person that I am.
—Kimberly, about her mother, The Maurer Foundation Founder Dr. Virginia Maurer