Our beautiful mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother left this earth to join her husband in heaven on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2013. The youngest of four children, mom was born March 4, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. A very devout Catholic, mom spent her life teaching her nine children to love and trust in the Lord. Mom is preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Norbert John, her parents Thomas and Marie Ott, her sister, Beatrice, brother, Joseph, granddaughter Michelle, and great-granddaughters, Faith and Lauren. Mom is survived by her sister, Rose and sister in-law, Loretta, her nine children and their spouses, Diane and Larry, Dan and Andrea, John and Carol, Marty and Janice, Noreen, Ed and Donna, Marylee and Harold, Monica and Jeff, Thomas, her 21 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and nephews, nieces, and her friends too numerous to mention.