from beginning to end

I dont' have any photos available here of Mattie Fay between 1932 and 1986, but I do have these two photos from the final 15 years of her life. In the top photo, she'd been at the nursing home for some months, having had strokes and experiencing dementia. I don't know what to call it. I remember her once saying that she felt like her head was in a knot. Eventually who she was didn't resemble anyone we'd known. We would visit but each visit felt odd, as if we were talking with a child or a stranger.