My mother was born at the Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles on March 21, 1947.  She had one older sister, Dianne, who was four years older than her and both parents her father, Irving Novak and her mother, Joyce (Hoggan) Novak.  She grew up in West Los Angeles very close to what is now today called Culver City.  She was always up to mischief from the time she was born.  She would throw her lunch down the toilet, hide dishes under her bed, lose her glasses and more.  She was wicked smart.  She could read a book a day.  She always wanted to be a psychologist.  She would give the best advise to anyone.  She met my father, Terry Duckworth, in high school in 9th grade and got pregnant at 18 (1965) and shortly after than had my brother, Michael, at 19 (1966).  She was married for a short amount of time till she was 21 .  Then she met Tim in 1973 and they have been together ever since (minus a few years here or there).  A true love that lasted about 48 years.  My mom loved to live on the wild side of life.  Lived every day like there is no tomorrow.  She was the most positive person you will ever meet and people felt so lucky to have her in their lives.   I know I was honored to be her daughter.  She will be truly missed, but never forgotten.  She's up there in heaven seeing the people she loved and making new friends.