11/11/2025
Today I woke up and the weather outside reminded me of this day ten years ago when my mother passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 64.
It was gray with a chill in the air. It seemed appropriate given the crushing melancholy and grief of that sad day.
I am so grateful that my parents have been heroic figures in my life.
My mom spent my entire life working in a District Attorney’s office fighting for victims of crime and their families. She was confronted daily by the worst behavior humanity has to offer yet I never saw her sunny disposition wane or her seemingly inexhaustible supply of compassion and kindness for the victims, many of them children, she was called upon to care for on a daily basis.
She was so much fun to be around. She loved Auburn football, Steve Perry and the band Journey, and the downtown Columbus YMCA where she could be found almost every day after work exercising.
And of course she loved her family.
You could not ask for a better person to be in your corner. To celebrate your successes and console you when you fell short. She was almost too good to be true.
I am sharing my euology here just as a reminder of what a beautiful person she was and how blessed so many people were to be touched by her kindness, decency, and love.
I love and miss you Mom!
Eulogy I delivered for my mother, Sharon McKoon, at her funeral.
