and Other Motherly Advice: Stories Our Mother Wrote
Compiled by Char Coffey
Jane Ross Noakes was a mother of eight who had a busy life, then went through a divorce after a thirty-year marriage. She went back to college and graduated at age 56, then spent the next eleven years in geriatric social work counseling. She also had a ministry for years and wrote sermonettes in letters to her members.
Throughout her life, she was a prolific writer of short stories, poems, and letters to her children and others. After she passed in 2002, her children could not stop reading and thinking about her words, stories, encouragements, and sweet sentiments which had comforted and guided them over the years.
Finally, one daughter decided to compile her writings into a published book because “her words were too beautiful to be forgotten.”
If you are looking for warm words reminiscent of yesteryear, filled with love and encouragement, this book will be a delight. Her short stories and images of old-fashioned Christmases in bygone days, her poems, and letters will lift your spirit and envelope you in a feeling of quiet strength, support, and knowing that, in the end, all will be well.
About the Author
Char Coffey, an award-winning quilter, compiled the writings of her mother, Jane Ross Noakes, from decades of stories and poems her mother had written for their family of eight children.
When her mother passed in 2002, Char decided to compile all her mother’s letters, stories, poems, and words of encouragement into a book hoping to continue encouraging whomever might find the writings helpful. This inspirational book is the result.
Char Coffey
