Describing Sharon Antcliff on one page of a web site is like trying to get somebody to picture the Grand Canyon with paper and a pencil. No matter how great your drawing may be, that beauty and wonder just isn't going to come across with white paper and a No. 2 pencil.

Sharon Antcliff was - as often as she could be - all things to all people.

She was "Mrs. A."
She was "mom."
She was "Nanny."


She was a teacher.
She was a cook.
She was a housekeeper.
She was a best friend.

She was SuperMom.

Chances are, if you walked into her home (which would be spotless) on a Saturday night, she'd be in her room, drinking an iced cappuccino, and studying an object lesson for her sunday school kids the next morning. You might hear her humming "Amazing Grace" while reading an Agatha Christie novel. If you were coy about it, you could even catch her watching "ER," and then get her to almost admit that George Clooney was good looking.

She was so much more than just a victim of a nasty disease. More than most people who read this could ever possibly know. But for those who did know her, the memories flowed easily.

"Mrs. A was always full of smiles and hugs. She never failed to give me both at every church service she attended. There is so much more I could say but you just had to have been blessed to know her in order to fully understand. I will never forget her love!"

"I will never forget the way Mrs. Antcliff told stories in Jr. Church. She kept all of us spellbound, waiting to hear the rest of the story. She gave every story, every character, life. I know she cared for each child in her class."

Sharon Antcliff is the inspiration behind this foundation in more ways than one. Yes, she suffered from an awful disease, but she would never want to be remembered for that. Instead, she'd want her legacy to be that, thanks to her experience with Alzheimer's, her family came together, and they were closer than they'd ever been before.

It's hard to imagine anything that would make her happier, really.