Tomorrow is the memorial for Mrs. Sheila and I am sitting here trying to get this tribute done for all of her loved ones to be able to see and enjoy by adding their own contributions to it, when It dawned on me that a weight that I was unaware of has slowly been getting lifted off my shoulders. I know that I am not Sheila's real daughter but her family that I have had the pleasure of meeting have all made me feel very welcome and as if I am a part of this family. Sheila in her own way helped me get through a very difficult time in my life and even though she really did not have the room or the resources to help anybody yet she still took me in a 39 recently separated at the time scared, lost girl who was left with nothing but a school computer and her personal belongings and a very confused broken heart. Sheila's compassion astonished me, at the time I felt like I was the only person in the whole world who felt this horrible aching void she told me of her stories and she treated me like a real person, a friend, and a family member. This remarkable woman along with a few others helped me to where I am today and that is some one with pride, confidence, compassion, and the most important the ability to love others without fear. If I had had my choice of a mother I would have chosen Sheila, her daughters are very lucky woman to have had a mother like Sheila they are the successful, smart, beautiful women they are today because of all their hard work and the love and support of their mother and family. I may not know the direct pain of what it is like to lose a mother but I can understand the feelings that they may have as I feel them myself. Sheila became to me like a guardian angel when she was alive so I know now she definitely is now in death. Thank you Sheila for the wonderful giving person you were.