Political Quotes

“February might be seen as a month when our family would end the customary mourning period following the death of Cecile Pomerleau. However, for our family this has been a time of remembering more than mourning, and that is the way she would have wanted it. Cecile was a beloved mother to my wife, Marcelle, and her brothers, Rene and Claude, a loving and loved grandmother to Kevin, Mark, and Alicia Leahy, and Mark and Paul Pomerleau, to the spouses of her grandchildren, to nephews and nieces, and adopted daughter Sister Consolata--and without a doubt, the best mother-in-law I could have. For Cecile, family, above all else, was her world. Even in her final illness, her ailments seemed to melt away when Marcelle was there to care for her or when she knew her sons were arriving to be with her, when Kevin and Christianna visited and brought her home, when Mark and Kristine sat with her as they planned their new life together. A very special visitor was her 'favorite' and only granddaughter, Alicia. Trips from Chicago by Mark and Paul Pomerleau meant so much to her. I so greatly benefited from her love and our daily talks and visits-- and had in her the most loyal and accepting of any constituent! Even when I thought I did poorly in a Senate debate, she was there to tell me I really won.”