September 8, 2013

Requiem for a Sacrificial Life

By Glenn Fairman
My mother, Carole Ann Fairman, was born to Eugene and Gwen Field on May 15, 1937 in the Los Angeles area. Although her parents have long since passed, she is survived by her sole sibling, Eugene, who is 7 years her senior. She attended Garfield High School and married my father Fred Fairman at 19 years of age and to whom she bore seven children: myself, Gary, Jeannene, Eric, Shawn, Dennis, and Stephanie. She raised her family in the towns of Pico Rivera, West Covina, Rowland Hts., and Rialto. In addition, she welcomed 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren into the world. She passed on to her Maker on August 22 from an aggressive malignant brain tumor within two months of its visible onset. These are her vital statistics. Please allow me to share with you a bit of her life and legacy. Who can doubt that a vast multitude of our society has now forgotten in its tin-plated narcissism what it means to put its own desires aside for the sake of a greater vision? My parents,...(Read Full Article)