May 8, 200719 yr Dante's mom died at the age of 92. Many don't know Dante was adopted when he was just a day old. Hopefully Dante will make this season a great one in her honor.
May 8, 200719 yr 92? Wow, she had him real late in life. RIP The first post mentioned that she was his adoptive mother. RIP
May 8, 200719 yr 92? Wow, she had him real late in life. RIP The first post mentioned that she was his adoptive mother. RIP It was ambiguous to me, I thought it was potentially his birth mother and his adoptive mother being another person. Ya never know.
May 8, 200719 yr Emma Culpepper, adoptive mother of Dolphins QB, has died at 92 The Associated Press Posted May 7, 2007, 2:18 PM EDT Emma Culpepper, the adoptive mother of Miami Dolphins quarterback Daunte Culpepper, has died. She was 92. Daunte Culpepper told The Associated Press that his adoptive mother died at her home in Ocala on Saturday. Funeral arrangements were not yet finalized Sunday evening. Her cause of death was not immediately known, but Daunte Culpepper said she suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He said Emma Culpepper was born in Marion County in 1914 and raised as many as 15 children, none of whom were biologically hers. "She was basically just on a mission always to help people. Anybody that touched her life, she was always trying to better them," said Daunte Culpepper, who has been slowed by 2005 knee surgery. "She instilled some great values in me and let me know it's not where you're at, but where you're going." Her husband John Culpepper died in 1977, the year Daunte Culpepper was born. She took him in when he was a day old, Daunte Culpepper said. "It was the best thing that happened to me in my whole life," he said. "I never really had a man in my life. She was my mother and my father." http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/loca...ports-headlines Raising all those children, none of them her own. Sounds like a special woman. RIP Emma, Thank You for your interest in caring for children....we could all learn from your example.....
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