![]() ![]() My mom passed away in November of last year. She's done all of this with humility and grace. She cared for my Dad while he fought cancer in 2017-18, kept our family together when he passed and then kicked cancer's butt herself from 2020-22. Just enough pudding to go into a blue china coffee cup and get served to a kid sitting at her table next to the stove. Somehow, by the miracle of mom economics, there would always be just a small amount of pudding leftover. When the pudding was done cooking, Mom would put it in the glass sherbet dishes that only came out of the cabinet on pudding days. Matthew Tucker, Northern Berkshire County Somewhere in between all of this, Pat has still found time to develop hobbies - when not caring for a child in some way, she can be found in her gardens and caring for her beautiful yard, or working on refinishing antique furniture. Thanks to the huge family she has built, Pat has served as a grandmother to many (some of whom are themselves adopted), and to several generations of foster parents just starting their experience. Laura passed away this past summer at the age of 96. When she retired from that role, she moved into the role of caretaker, helping guide her mother-in-law, Laura Tucker, through old age. Over that time she became the adoptive mother of seven more children - all of whom would never have known the stability of family without her.Īs a career, she spent over two decades as a labor and delivery nurse at Berkshire Medical Center, helping new families come together each and every day. Over three decades, they have had well over 100 children in their care, ranging from failure to thrive infants to teenage mothers, and seemingly everything in between. After adopting her oldest son through a familial connection, she and my father made the choice to become foster parents. ![]() When she and my father discovered that having children more traditionally was not an option, it started her on a path quite unlike any other. Pat Tucker is a woman who's life is a beautiful story of giving, and of family building. ![]()
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