Bent Northrop Memorial Library

A Mother's Final Gift is the story of one courageous woman – Louise Viola Swanson Wollenberg – and of her tremendous love of life and family, and her faith and resolve. But it is also the story of her equally courageous family who, in the process of rising to the occasion and carrying out Louise's long-held final wishes, not only overcame so many stigmas about the process of death but, at the same time, rediscovered what it means to