A Beautiful Life, A Beautiful Death, A Mother and Daughter’s Journey

One ordinary life. She was a daughter, a wife, a mother. By all appearances, she seemed to follow the usual road. Marcella raised five children. She kept a clean house. She made a mean pot roast (oh, and goulash). And yet, there was so much more to that strong, hard-working woman than the ordinary and obvious. For over ten years she battled terminal cancer and instructed her children on the value of redemptive suffering and the immeasurable importance she placed on her Catholic faith. She taught her daughter through our Lord’s example: ＂Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow.＂ ＂Her life and especially her death were so remarkable that I knew I must share it.＂ Teresa Hurst A Beautiful Life... chronicles her last week. It tells of the deep and complex relationship between a mother and daughter, the humor in life, the incredible heartbreak that comes with loss, and the healing that only God can give.