Sentence examples for surrogate aunt from inspiring English sources

Tiny, twinkly and tough, Winnie is at least a surrogate aunt to Catherine and possibly a full surrogate mum.

In the same year, Winifred Holtby, who lived with the family in Chelsea and who had become the children's surrogate aunt, died of Bright's disease.

What JJ did not expect on that sweltering summer morning, 3,787 days after her diagnosis, was the conversation that awaited her in exam room No. 4. Since the AIDS epidemic erupted in the 1980s, hundreds of children born with HIV have been brought to this hospital for treatment by medical specialists who become surrogate aunts and uncles.

After the untimely death of her sister Miriam, she served as surrogate mother and aunt to her cherished nephew and niece Doug Finn and Jane Finn Levine.

Ergüven, 37, comes across among them as a mix of surrogate mother, cool aunt and amused older sister.

Caroline had many names including; mom, grandma, aunt, sister, godmother, surrogate mom, mentor and friend.

At heart this may be a father-son play, but Turner's production reminds us, through richly expressive performances from Valerie Lilley as Gar's surrogate mum, Julia Swift as his fugitive aunt, and Laura Donnelly as the girl he loved and lost, that women, too, pay a high price for Irish small-town solitude.

They left behind grandmothers and aunts who served as surrogate parents and reunited with mothers and fathers they remembered only from photographs.

As a commuter, Kerry has been adopted by a surrogate family of about a dozen "aunts" and "uncles," fellow Metro-North riders who have become a big part of her life.

There's also no reason we can't repurpose one or both of the holidays to fit our families, or use the entire time between the two days to celebrate each of the many people whom we call "family," including donors, surrogates, birth parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents of donors, etc. -- whatever works for our specific families.

Survived by aunt Mary Dousett, special cousin Joanne Proctor, longtime special friend Linda A. Russell, and surrogate sons Eric B. Johnson and Stanley Obaji.