It does sound like your mom lived a wonderful, sensible life. My prayers are with you as you adjust to her moving on.
Thanks! Yes she did. I put together a slideshow over the years (from 1918!). Lots of cool old photos. I was showing her what I was putting together, and mentioned how she was the prettiest one in all the photos. (She was!)
I asked her if she knew how pretty she was back then. “Oh, I didn’t think I was that pretty - I thought I was skinny.” She stayed skinny too. There is a photo of her at her sister’s 50 wedding anniversary party, and my mom is wearing her floor length, slim-fitting red dress with arm-length matching red gloves. And with no alterations! (As you can tell, a child of the Depression that held onto things!) Oh - and the 50 year-old dress was still in style!
And anywhere half-way formal (dinner date, church, going on a trip) she always had a hat on. “Oh - I loved hats!”