Mother's Day 2004. My mother, Mildred Knight Maynard, was born in Utah in 1911. She died at age 71 in 1982. Millie was one of eight children. She was an extremely loving and gentle person who loved music, poetry, a good book and, most of all, children. Everyone called her Mamma Millie, even though she wasn't their mother. She did not have children of her own until she was 40. I was her first son, followed two years later by my brother. Here are a few very old photographs of Mamma Millie's life.