SID-''We Had The Best Mom Ever''-Mrs.Vivian Pauline Howard Stanley*Trust*In*GOD*

 Today is the first Mother's Day that my beloved mother is not here for me both to salute and honor.Mrs.Vivivan Pauline Howard Stanley.passed away early on the morning about 6:00am of January 10th.Five days after he final great granddaugher was born,Mila Tryn Linton AKA MTV.An angel coming down and another going up
 Born in Portsmoth Virgina,January 21 1929 to Bishop Paul M. Howard and Cornelia Newby. Atteneding Both Catholic and Public school.Came to New York after marrying James Arthur Stanley Senior,,in 1947, they travelled to New York city and resided in famed Harlem in New York city.Then in 1949 moved to too famed Brookyn in the renowned Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
 Here she resided for over 70 years at,233 Stuyvesant Avenue,apartmment 3A.And was a member of legendary Cornerstone Baptist church for 66 years.She had four children.Melvin named after his dad's best friend.Helen after he dad's mother who like Vivian's passed at a young age.Helen at 35,Cornelia her beloved Mother at 42. Theresa last born looked just like her Grandmother Helen.Her name was choosen as Vivian heard some one calling some one by that name.James is named after his dad.Vivian also lost two children during early pregnancy.
 She herself the second born of her seven silblings.David first,then she,Paul,John,Naomi,Virginia and Cornelia named after her mother.Vivian became the oldest sibling after the tragic car accident death of David,And with her mother catching tuberculosis she too at an early age became the matriarch of her beloved family.
  She felt so proud of the fact starting a prayer group at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital,where she worked for over 3 decades retiring in 1994.A true child of GOD and mother unsurpassed .Today I both moan yet applaud the life of my beloved mother and echo the words of my beloved sister Helen,''We had the best Mom Ever.''Amen-TrustInGOD