MY MOTHER, KATHRYN LAUDERDALE

by  Ramona Lauderdale Honan

            Abraham Lincoln said, "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."  I believe I could say the same thing about my mother, Kathryn Lauderdale.

             My mother wasn't from a rich and influential background, but what she gave me is beyond the price of rubies and gold.  If it were not for her and my father, I would not be what I am today–a Christian. 

             Kathryn Wade was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1917.  She was the youngest of six children of Minnie Marshall and James Meigs Wade.  Her father died when she was five, and her mother struggled to keep the farm during the depression.  Because of this, my mother became someone with a purpose in life and who was not afraid to find it.  In the late 1930s, my mother met my father and they were in married 1939 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  To this day, she says he was the best-looking man she had ever seen.

             About that time, she embarked on a soul search concerning her religion.  She was looking for a church that really adhered to the precepts of the Bible.  After asking a minister such a question, my mother was led to the church of Christ and became a Christian in 1952.

             Then—she began praying for my father to become a member of the Church.  He began reading and searching the Bible—and not long afterward, he too became a member of the Church.  To this day, she says it was because of her prayers to God for his salvation.

             My dad later became an Elder in the Church, serving over forty years--saving and influencing hundreds of souls.  When he passed away, he had one of the largest funerals that congregation ever had.  And it all started because of my mother's prayers. 

             I was sick with bronchitis many times when young, and my mother would rock me in a big wicker rocking chair.  I became a Christian at an early age, and I still remember her rocking me in that chair, saying that I was now free of all my sins and that I was a Christian. 

             Later, while having problems when I was an adult, I would always call my mother and ask her to pray for me.  I believe that God always answered her prayers and took care of me.  She is 86 today, but says if I or my sister need prayers, she will go into her bedroom and get on her "fat knees," to pray for her kids. 

             I thank the Lord God every day for my mother and her influence on me and my life.  I would have no other mother in the world.  I am reminded of this verse:  "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6, KJV).

 Ramona Lauderdale Honan

Dedicated to her Mother, Kathryn Louise Lauderdale

 

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