Mom's Chicken Gumbo Soup

Ingredients

• 5 1/2 pounds whole chicken
• 2 onions *diced about 3 cups
• 7 garlic cloves *minced or crushed
• 6 celery stalks *roughly diced about 2 cups
• 4 carrots med sized, * diced about 2 cups
• 2 bay leaves
• 3 teaspoons thyme
• 2 teaspoons marjoram
• 32 ounces chicken broth
• 8 cups water *enough to almost cover chicken fully
• 56 ounces tomatoes whole
• 1/2 cup brown rice short grain
• 2 pounds okra frozen cut
• salt
• pepper
• gumbo filé *to taste