In loving memory of our beloved mother, Louise Herold Knauf who passed away on February 24,

twenty-five years ago.

If tears could build a stairway,

And memories were a lane,

We would walk right up to heaven

To bring you home again.

No farewell words were spoken

No time to say goodbye

You were gone before we knew it

And only God knows why

Our hearts still ache in sadness

And secret tears still flow,

What it meant to lose you

No one will ever know.