Meet the lady behind my inspiration to pursue my passion, and my inspiration to help others:

“My Mom”

In Loving Memory

This website is dedicated to all the lives my mother touched with love. This remarkable wife, mother, gospel singer, and tremendous giver of care stands untouched as a shining example of the greatest and most noble instincts of humanity: To love each other and our fellow man. I honor her and am honored to continue her legacy, to celebrate her love of freedom, and help others lives free, full, long, and healthy lives.

Even as a child, Annie melted the hearts with her easy approachability and musical talent. Her ability to strike up conversation with even complete strangers quickly turned to appreciation of her empathy. Her songs moved the heart. Her empathy and kindness moved the soul.

Annie worked the great Maydell Cherry, received recognition from the San Antonio music Academy while she studied with Arthur Newman. She has worked with esteemed San Antonio musicians such as Walter Odom, Verlaine Reese, Jesse Dixon, Oscar Ford, Rev Donald Vails, and Yum-Chum Okaio. She was a featured national anthem soloist for the San Antonio Spurs Basketball Team, and has performed "The Lord's Prayer" for the Pope's visit to San Antonio in 1987. After all of that, she still manged to perform in the play Madam Butterly, and record her own Ave Maria single.

Parallel to her greatness as a singer, Annie Ruth Statham also was a great caretaker of others. Ruth not only faithfully cared for her family and friends through her delicious home cooked, "made-from-scratch" meals and signature brownies, but also opened up these meals to entire neighborhoods. Truly, this was a woman who not only fed her loved ones, but fed the homeless, the ill, the needy, the hungry, just as she would have fed christ himself: With a love and tenderness indicative of a child of god.

Ruth's sudden departure on November 30th, 2018, at 5:49 am at Carol Ann's Facility, was a tragic loss. Yes her inspiration imparts a lasting message to us all. For despite the injuries sustained by her body, and the slow corruption and memory loss through Alzheimer's disease, Annie Ruth Statham never allowed her courage, nor hope, to falter. She strengthened her will to fight and struggle, as the love of Christ so often compels. Ruth's courage, faith and deterination, have led many to compare her to the great woman Harriet Tubman throughout her life.

Annie, your memory sustains us and inspires us to the greatest of aspirations for human life: To love, care for, and cherish the lives of our fellow men, and women.