Good neighbor finds her room in the mansion

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4949717.html

snips from the obituary article:
"Sally" Landram, who spent much of her life teaching and supervising the instruction of other people's children, also raised eight of her own.

'Sally' Landram helped Catholic schools welcome those displaced by Katrina. She saw those fleeing the hurricane as her children

Sarah "Sally" Wilson Landram, who as superintendent of Catholic schools in the Galveston-Houston Archdiocese welcomed hundreds of children who fled the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, has died. She was 72.
"Neighbors" was how Landram referred to the newcomers, said Pat Cook, an associate superintendent of Catholic schools who worked with Landram.
"These are our children," Cook remembers Landram saying, "and we will do whatever we need to do to accommodate them."
Landram welcomed the children from Louisiana and Mississippi whether they had attended Catholic, public or private schools, Cook said. Tuition and other fees were waived, Cook said.
Landram instructed principals to do everything possible to help the newcomers. School PTAs provided needed supplies, and children shared desks, Cook said. Students' parents opened their homes to the visiting children, she said.
Some of the newcomers stayed on in Houston, Cook said, but most returned to their home states.
Landram "helped form thousands of young minds and hearts in our Catholic schools and always remained faithful to the Catholic principles of education,"Archbishop Daniel N. DiNardo said in a statement after her death. "I am extremely grateful for her dedication and leadership."
Landram, who spent much of her life teaching and supervising the instruction of other people's children, also raised eight of her own.
"She was a drill sergeant, and she was strong, honest and fair — a wonderful human being," said her daughter, Alisa Lawrence.