The Names of My Mothers

By Dianne Sanders Riordan

The Names of My Mothers is the touching story of the tender and all- too-brief relationship forged late in life between Dianne Riordan (nee Susanne Sanders) and her birth mother. In 1942 Elizabeth Bynam Sanders was a young woman who left home under false pretenses and travelled to Our Lady of Victory, a home for unwed mo

• Language: English
• Publisher: ARPress
• Release date: Mar 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9798893304145

Dianne Sanders Riordan

Dianne Sanders Riordan and her husband, Frank live in Buffalo, New York where they resettled after serving twenty years as a Navy family. They are the parents of three daughters and four sons, and grandparents to seventeen. Dianne received a BA from Rosary Hill Collage (now Daemen College). A retried family advocate with the Mental Health Association of Erie County, she now volunteers with Justice for Migrant Families. Her poems have been published in "Women of the Vineyard", Volumes 1 and 2.

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