My Hero

My hero is not a professional athlete, movie star, or rock & roll star, but an ordinary person. She dropped out of school in the eleventh grade and became pregnant at the tender age of nineteen. She did what was expected of her and got married. That was just the first of four failed marriages.

She became a single Mom at the age of twenty-nine. She then struggled to raise her young daughter and young son on a grocery clerk’s salary. After her daughter left home to join the U.S. Air Force, she decided that it was time to do something with her life.

She obtained her GED and then started school at Hinds Community College. She attended HCC hoping to get a degree in computers. She not only got her degree, but she graduated with honors. After all her hard work, she decided that computers were not for her. Her true passion was to become an Elementary school teacher. Therefore, off to school she went again, this time at Jackson State University.

While attending JSU, life threw a curve ball her way. It was breast cancer. During the winter break she had a right mastectomy performed. After the surgery, the chemotherapy began. While doing the chemo she returned to school determined that this would not stop her. The cancer went into remission and life went on.

She excelled at school while working and raising her son alone. The winter of 1995 the cancer returned. This time it was found in her bone, liver, and lung. She took the spring semester off from school to recover and go through more chemotherapy. She returned to school in the fall determined that she would finish and graduate.

She fought the cancer with medicine but also with humor, grace and dignity. My hero quietly slipped from this world September 26, 1999, one semester from graduating with her degree.

As I said before my hero was just an ordinary person, but unlike someone you yourself probably know. The only difference being that my hero is my Mom, Linda Marlene Scott.

I am sorry for your loss

Sounds like your MOM was a great lady and taught you good values

Thank ya'll. This was an essay I wrote for Eng Comp II. The professor insisted that I get up in front of a full to the brim auditorium an read it durin English week. I was skeered outta my wits an cryin by the time I got to the end.

RED I was crying reading that so I camn imagine how much you were cryiong reading it outloud

What a wonderful tribute to your mother

Thank you for sharing this, brought tears to my eyes. As a struggling single mother myself, I think you ought to know that she MUST be smiling down on you every single day!

That an some


She had no problem tellin me when she thought I screwed up an made a bad decision. She held nuthin back, I ain't a thing like her

LOL! Yeah, that's a mom for ya! Still think she's pretty proud of you!

This ROCKS Beans!!! To you and your mom!!!