Big Mama's Life in Pictures

She passed away in a Grandway Hospital.... 

Of note....the Headstone says Big mama's birthyear was 1890...   Although I believe the Census records of 1900 show her birthyear as 1885 --- a more reliable-truth fact.   Big Mama was so much younger than Dad Sipuel... Big really was known to have lied...... not revealing her real age!!!!  

That being said... her age at her time of death would have been 86 years old.

 Copies of her obit . . . .

41 years ago today  03-17-1971

Her Smile is Awesome....

Martha Belle Smith Sipuel    (born 01-09-1895  died 03-17-1971)

Big Mama was about 53 years old with her adult daughter (Yr 1948)...... I wasn't born till 1954 when Big Mama was about 59 years old.... Thus I was just a seventeen year old teenager when she died in 1971.

My Mother's bio of Big mama