Ida Fuller Potter

Ida Fuller Potter

Mom, Ida Fuller Potter

L-R: Carlene, Mom, Ida Fuller and, David Potter in McRoberts, Kentucky

My Beautiful Momma, Ida Fuller Potter

Our Parents Creed Flannery Potter and Ida Fuller Potter

Ida Fuller Potter b 27 Jun 1912 Smithsboro, Knott Co KY d 1 Jul 2007 Pasadena, TX, buried 3 Jul 2007 Pearland, Texas, d/o Elijah Green Fuller and Leona Smith. Ida married Creed Flannery Potter, b 2 Sept 1902 d Jan 1959 Letcher Co KY, s/o Joel Martin Potter and Eliza Frances Reynolds. Children of Ida Fuller Potter and Creed Flannery Potter;

Billie Joyce Potter. (stepdaughter of Creed; biological d/o Coy Johnson)

Clark D Potter.

Joel Martin Potter.

David T Potter.

Annette Yvonne Potter.

Leona Carlene Potter.

Mother raised Dad's (Creed Flannery Potter) sons by a previous marriage (to Sarah Rose Robinson) They were;

Mom was a talented guitar player, song writer and singer. She entertained our family all her life. Mom wrote songs and sang them, and not too long ago, she sang gospel music and blues music that everyone loved to hear. At every party and get together in our family, our Mom was the entertainment. At the following link, you can view the lyrics to one of Mom's gospel songs called The Holy Ghost. She wrote many others, but I do not have them and I don't know what became of her music. There were so many going through her things when she passed away, that I really don't know where they could be. It's possible that they no longer exist.

Our Mom was the bond that held us together and life is not going to be the same without her. She was always there for us and she was the most wonderful person I've ever known. She loved unconditionally and she loved her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Mom brought up her children to also love the Lord and most of us do love the Lord nearly as much as she did.

Mother always talked of a desire for education and encouraged us to higher learning. She had the grace and poise of a queen and always managed to look lovely even though she had a much limited income. She was a wonderful role model for all her children and she taught us straight from her favorite book, the Bible, which she read as often as she had time for. Her Bible was well used and and dog-eared and there were notes all through it from her constant usage. She would quote scripture to us when we went to her for advice and she always knew the answer to any problem. If we had all listened to her, we would have all been much better positioned for it. The number of times I have said in my life "If I had only listened to Mother" or "Mother was right"; are too numerous to count. The older I got the more brilliant she became and to this day, I still use those terms. I can't tell you how much we are going to miss her. There are no words to express the grief of losing her.

Mom loved her children and lived for them. When she would have to be away from them in her younger days, she told me that her arms ached to hold her children and she could not wait to be with them to hold them in her arms again. I don't really see the kind of love she was capable of in others. She was forgiving and tender hearted. I saw her cry many times over her children. She would "stand in the gap" for them in her prayers and I know she prayed for us every day of her life.

The one and only consolation is that she is relieved from her suffering and is at peace in Heaven. Mom's Memorial Page ....... Mom's Eulogy

Corinthians Describes My Mother's Love For Her Family

Love suffers long and is kind;
love does not envy;
love does not parade itself,
is not puffed up;
does not behave rudely,
does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity,
but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things
Love never fails.