Gathering to celebrate the mom not talked about for 50 years
(World News USA)

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - Her children talk about the pelicans, how they glided overhead as the singer finished the song. `Remember me` - the last lyric - faded with the evening sun on a Hilton Head Island beach. The birds` flight seemed preordained, part of the day`s events. Margie Kemper`s kids, grown now, had gathered at Shipyard Plantation after an afternoon of cocktails, hors d`eouvres and a catered dinner on July 22 - 50 years after her death - to celebrate her life and to reconstruct memories of the mother they`d hardly known. Margie was 32 when the cancer took her on May 19, 1968, in New York. She had five children - the youngest 2, the oldest 7 - who were suddenly trying to...