Susie May Isaacs，my great grandmother, was a beautiful woman, both in person and in spirit. She lived through two World Wars and the Great Depression. She was born in a boat in Western Oklahoma to a Cheyenne Indian father and white mother. During the eleven years I knew her. I received the gifts of witnessing determination, courage, love and perseverance. Ma lost her leg when she was 83 due to poor circulation and was told she would be in a wheelchair the rest of her life. The doctors were astonished when she left the hospital using a cane and had named her new wooden leg “Peggy”．
In 1982 Ma had a heart attack and was diagnosed with heart failure. During the weeks she was in ICU(监护病房), the hospital did not allow children to visit. Ma became very upset and refused to eat until she was allowed to see her sixteen greatgrandchildren.
We all had received bibles from her as babies which were filled with clippings(剪报) of jokes and stories. When we saw Ma, she gave us all $5. With the help of our parents we bought 16 new bibles for her to sign and fill with her clippings. None expected her to be able to sign them all before she passed away. But we all underestimated her courage and strength when she was released from her “death bed” to go home and began her task of love. During her last month she signed all the bibles and gave them to us filled with clippings and hand written poems.
Many years before Ma's death she had told her friends she would die on a Sunday so she could meet her Lord when he wasn't so busy. She had a massive heart attack on Thursday afternoon. She endured eight heart attacks between then and Sunday morning at six when she went on to meet her Lord.
苏茜梅艾萨克斯,我的曾祖母,在人与精神上是一个美丽的女人。她经历过两次世界大战和经济大萧条。她出生在俄克拉何马州西部一艘夏安族印第安人的父亲和白人母亲。我知道她在十一年。我收到的礼物见证的决心、勇气、爱和毅力。马失去了她的腿,她是83年因血液循环不良和被告知她将在轮椅上度过余生。医生很惊讶当她离开医院使用手杖和任命她的新木腿“佩吉”。
1982年马英九心脏病发作和被诊断出患有心力衰竭。周期间她在ICU(监护病房),医院不允许孩子去。马变得非常沮丧,并拒绝吃,直到她被允许见她十六大孙子。
我们都收到了圣经从她的婴儿,充满了剪报(剪报)的笑话和故事。当我们看到妈妈,她给了我们所有人5美元。在父母的帮助下,我们为她买了16个新圣经签署,充满她的剪报。没有期望她能够签字之前,她去世了。但是我们都低估了她的勇气和力量,当她从“死床”被释放回家,开始爱的她的任务。在她上个月她签了所有的圣经,交给我们充满了剪报和手写的诗。
多年前马的死她告诉她的朋友她会死在一个周日的主,这样她就可以见到她时,他不是很忙。周四下午她有严重的心脏病发作。她经历了八个心脏病之间,星期天早上六点她去见了上帝。
