Ana Maria Banks was “a woman who brought the weekends to boys from the junior high school to the pool. Years after his death, one of them knocked on the door to present him with his university degree ”. This is how her daughter describes her, María Estanislada “Tani” Urraza, in its twitter account, 15 years after his death, in December 2006.
“This beauty was my mother”, thus begins the tribute he made to her now to his mother. Also, tell who it was Ana Maria through a series of images. This Twitter thread generated great excitement on the social network, since it accumulated more than 27 thousand “likes”, more than 1,800 retweets and hundreds of comments.
now relates the most significant of the exemplary life of his mother: “I helped the needy of the neighborhood and, above all, transmitted his enorme fe. One return, he convinced a humble couple in the neighborhood to marry in church and, since they had no money, he organized the marriage for them at home. And there we were his children dressed for parties and serving as waiters at home, for unknown people ”.
Ana Maria Banks He was born on June 19, 1950 in San Antonio, Texas, United States, where his family lived because of his father’s work, Luis Maria Banks, a geologist oil. A few years later they moved to Venezuela, then to Paraguay (where his father was from) and finally to Argentina.
They settled in Buenos Aires, where Ana Maria attended college. One year she received an award for outstanding student and presented it to her Jorge Luis Borges. Later they moved to City Bell, where Ana Maria met Eduardo Adrián de Urraza, her great love and father of her four children. For him it was made peronist, a political inclination that he maintained until his last days.
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About his college days, now He says that “She studied geology for a time like her father, but in the end she was an English teacher. He always visited the sick, and massaged their feet. She was one of the first to use the cetogénica diet for the treatment of my brother’s epilepsy, because for everything, I was going thoroughly. He was cheerful and elegant. He traveled the world. And I didn’t know what a branded clothing or an expensive purse was. It was from another place ”.
“After studying English teachers, she dedicates herself to being a teacher in different schools, and also begins to work in a institute for minors. And every weekend I was going back and forth with the boys. I brought them home to use the pool, everything. And sometimes I would complain, and she would tell me that I had the pool to myself all week, and they only on the weekend ”. Many of the orphanage boys they remembered her forever. In 2006, one of them appeared at the house of Ana Maria. It had received from engineer and he wanted to go tell her, that it had been his teacher a decade ago and wanted to thank you for always cheering me on. He was just late: Ana Maria he had died a year ago. The boy took out his college degree and showed it to his daughter, so that she would know what his mother had done for him.
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In the early 1980s, he was able to overcome a depression and met god. For years he regretted not having come to church earlier, but devoted himself to religion and others. “She said that her best moment was now. He said that for years he had not been entirely happy, that He was reborn when he met Jesus and only then did she feel full, “she says now. Also in the eighties, after the Falklands war, He rejected his North American citizenship: from then on he never wanted to renew his American passport because of the support they offered to England during the conflict.
In 2002 her husband died Eduardo in a traffic accident. It was a hard blow for her. A year and a half later he was diagnosed breast cancer. He died in 2006, asking to receive Communion every day to be close to God. Since then, her children have been meeting people who tell them an anecdote about her and thank them for their generosity.
“I think his story has to do with those little people that walk next to us and that are from one huge quirk. I think my mom was a saint directly. There are many people around the world who are like that and we don’t recognize them. She was never recognized even by her own children, ”says Tani.
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