Willhammer "Pit" Williams

is honored with a Brick from Darla D. Brown.

My mother, Willhammer "Pit" Williams, meant the world to me and everyone in our family. She was the rock of existence, the foundation, the glue that held us all together. It's not the same without her. I guess when you really think about it, there is no one in your life like your mother. She is who I am.

I think her greatest gift to me was her unconditional love. She was a good mother and I try everyday to wake up and be like her for the sake of my children. I try to give them what she gave me, not only material things, but things like common sense, discipline, a sense of pride, class, and just letting them know how much I love them. I know my children don't understand what it feels like to lose a mother now, and I hope when that time does come, its only after being safely cushioned by years and years of love from spouses and children and the knowledge that they have learned everything I have to teach them .

I will never ever get used to her being gone. I will always want her back, wondering what our relationship would be like now. It never would have occurred to me 8 1/2 years ago, that all these years later I would learn what I've learned from her death, about being a good person and a good mother. It never would have occurred to me that it would make me so strong and I would not crash under the pressures that came with that. But I realize that in a heartbeat I would trade all I've learned for what I lost 8 1/2 years ago.

Submitted by Darla D. Brown

September 5, 1998