Actor Chuck Norris speaks during the National Rifle Association's 139th annual meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina May 14, 2010. | (Photo: Reuters/Chris Keane)
Actor and martial artist Chuck Norris paid tribute to his mother for her 100th birthday this month and revealed how her faith transformed his life.
Norris wrote about his mother, Wilma Norris Knight, in an exclusive for WND.com, where he shared pivotal moments from her life.
Born into poverty in rural Wilson, Oklahoma, on May 4, 1921, Norris explained that his mother had a very difficult life. At 8 years of age, she became a ward of the state and lived in a children’s hospital where she suffered from a rare disease for two years. Once released, she returned home and looked after her family during the Great Depression, and picked cotton in fields.