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Rita’s RememberMe Story

“This one really was very special to me.”

She lost her mom Mary in 2026. She shared this hours after Mary’s song arrived.

An illustration of Mary smiling in her wheelchair, holding a Best Door Decorator certificate with a blue first-place ribbon, autumn trees and a stone church behind her
Mary’s songAlways Your Sweet Rita
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IMary’s song

“Always Your Sweet Rita”

A country song for Mary · 3:37

0:00 3:37

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Verse 1

Chorus

Verse 2

Chorus

Bridge

Final Chorus

IIHer words, in her song

What she wrote about Mary, word for word, and the lines it became.

  1. Who she wasHer contagious smile, her beautiful singing voice
    In the song 0:44

    Oh, Momma, you were singing every mile of the drive

    With a contagious smile that made me glad I'm alive

  2. Her legacySix children that loved her with all they had
    In the song 0:52

    Six kids and all those grandbabies to hold

  3. What she missesI miss our little adventure… Gilbert with a population of 25 to the Hickman family homestead… Riding the ferry across the water at Peele… the GPS took us the back roads
    In the song 0:08

    Me and Presley Ann riding with the windows rolled down

    Heading out to Gilbert, population twenty-five town

    To the Hickman family homestead out in Erbie, Arkansas

    Took the backroads to Peele just to get little Peanut

    The GPS got us lost, but we loved every minute

    Riding that ferry boat with the sun on your face

  4. A memoryPicnics at the Buffalo River… cover up slipped off… we laughed so hard we cried
    In the song 1:16

    I still laugh about the picnic by the Buffalo shore

    Your cover-up slipped, some stranger faked a photograph

    We were crying real tears from the power of that laugh

  5. A memoryher little apartment 119… the legend of the candy cane… She got out of the hospital on Monday… they judged Friday & she won
    In the song 1:36

    And I think about your door at apartment one-nineteen

    The Legend of the Candy Cane, the best they'd ever seen

    Out the hospital on Monday, by Friday you won first prize

  6. What she missesher flirtiness with the men where she lived… she couldn’t hardly breathe anymore… she loved to play bingo
    In the song 2:23

    Flirting with the men, playing Bingo down the hall

    Singing out your favorite songs till you couldn't breathe at all

  7. Her message to herthanks for all that you sacrificed… I will always be your sweet Rita I will tell all these little ones growing up about you
    In the song 1:09

    I'll always be your sweet Rita

    I'll tell all the little ones you loved them to the end

    Thank you for your sacrifice, my mother and my friend

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IIIMary’s story

Mary had six children “that loved her with all they had,” along with grandchildren, great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. She had two special fur babies too, Presley and Peanut.

She had a contagious smile and a beautiful singing voice, and she sang right up until she could hardly breathe. She loved being around people, playing bingo and all the games at the assisted living where she lived, and flirting with the men there.

“I’m so glad that God blessed me for 59 years with you”

What she wrote to her

Her daughter misses their little adventures with Presley Ann, her cockapoo, from Gilbert, Arkansas, population 25, to the Hickman family homestead in Erbie. They rode the ferry across the water at Peele and back, and at Peele they got the long-haired Chihuahua that Mary fell instantly in love with.

There were picnics at the Buffalo River, just the two of them. One time her sister Shirley came along, Mary’s cover-up slipped off on the way into the store, and a stranger pretended to take pictures. “We laughed so hard we cried.”

Every year her daughter decorated the door of Mary’s little apartment, number 119, for the door decorating contest. They went from honorable mention to second place to first, and “just seeing the smile on her face was enough to know that I did my very best.”

The year she won, with the Legend of the Candy Cane, Mary had been in the hospital the whole month of November. She got out on a Monday, the door was decorated in two days, a group of kids judged it on Friday, and she won. She was “Over the moon happy.”

“I can see my precious Mommy with that beautiful Contagious smile like she’s right in front of me.”

Mary’s daughter, in her review

To her daughter she was “my best friend my ride or die my everything,” and Mary called her sweet Rita. This was the ninth song she has had made for her mom, and she listens to them every day.

IVEverything she said

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