A week ago today our family lost our beloved Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother, Magdalena "Mae" Montoya or Mema to us. She was an icon in the Montoya family and will be greatly missed. She was a strong, solid woman of maybe 5 foot tall. She was active up until the last week of her life. She loved to go to the barn and check on her chickens and goats and she was still milking a cow, even in her 80's. She raised nine children in a home without electricity and running water. She worked hard and played hard. We buried her on the ground that her parents homesteaded where she was born and raised and the same ground where she and Pompo raised their children. It has been a hard week, but we all know that she has been welcomed into Heaven, where Pompo and many other friends and family await.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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