Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: Queen Creek resident Ellen Delano

didn't realize what her mother [Anna Nelle Phipps Ohrt] was working on when she'd get up in the middle of the night to jot things down. "She would say 'I just had something revealed to me,'" Delano said.

But later in life Delano discovered her mother's revelations were a collection of poems spanning 70 years.

from East Valley Tribune: Book of poems fulfills mother's dying wish

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