Sewing: For Mother’s Day, Houston moms in their 80s, 90s and 100s share motherhood superpowers
Shirley Mandel, 91, with her family. She is the mother of Barry Mandel, president of Discovery Green park.Freddye Thelma Dizer’s family piled into the sunken living room of their Missouri City home as she nestled in a lounge chair. Her favorite TV show, “Wheel of Fortune,” was on in the background.
Before the pandemic, their Mother’s Day celebration was a 15-year family tradition in which the men showered the women with food, flowers and affection, and the women did nothing that day but bask in the adoration. For Caram, 89, a retired educator and former president of the Institute of Hispanic Culture of Houston, motherhood was everything she had hoped it would be.
Caram, a native Houstonian who married Dr. Pedro Caram, a Mexican Lebanese neurosurgeon, said her husband was the better disciplinarian. They agreed on spoiling their children with love, not material things, and teaching them the value of work. In Montrose, Rita Holland’s illustrations and artwork, along with cherished family photos, accent her condo. She confessed it has been a while since she had painted.
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