It’s been said time and time again that teachers do more than instruct the daily lesson plans to their students. Teachers are known to use their own money to buy school supplies, food, and even clothes for those pupils whose families just cannot afford it. They do it without expecting adulation or a salary bonus. This is their passion, to see their students become the best version of themselves. Not every pupil keeps in touch with their former teachers, but they will always remember what that adult meant to them. Educators understand that their students are always watching them and it’s not just for what the homework will be. It’s how they speak and treat others that may be the biggest lesson they give in their classrooms.She had many students go through her studio learning the notes and songs to become great musicians.
He started taking music lessons from her when he was just nine years old.
When he saw his former teacher, he recognized her instantly. It seems that it was meant to be that Ms. Redmond was one of his patients.
Joshua pulled out his mobile phone so he could look at the words of the hymn “How Great Thou Art,” so he could sing it to Ms. Redmond.
It appeared like Ms. Redmond was too far gone to understand the beautiful gesture from her former student.
Ms. Redmond’s daughter-in-law, Marti Redmond, captured the moment in the room with her mobile phone.
“Hospice workers are angels but this hospice aide is special. Mary taught voice and piano in her day and this aide Joshua Woodard was one of her students as a kid. (What) special people hospice workers are,” she wrote on her Facebook page.
Patients with advanced or last stage illness are moved to hospice care to make life more comfortable and pain-free for them.
She didn’t move or open her eyes. She simply said, “beautiful.”
->**Watch Joshua sing “How Great Thou Art,” for his music teacher Ms. Redmond.**<-