Posted on 07/17/2015 9:50:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Isn’t Kittle great? He’s going to appear at the local Republican Club’s Pig Roast here in August. I can hardly wait to meet him.
101! WOW! Sorry for her passing, but what a long life! Hope the end was peaceful for her.
He has a beautiful speaking voice, too!
As good as could be expected. She didn’t seem to be in any pain. It was not peaceful for me because she said a lot of crazy stuff at the end. I keep telling myself that it was the drugs talking (she was in hospice care at her retirement home) but some of the things she said I find it hard to get out of my head.
I carry a lot of guilt for things I did, or didn’t do, regarding the funeral and the burial and the disposal of her estate. But all I could do was all I could do, and I suppose that was enough. It is hard living 2000 miles away and trying to manage my own household and our business long distance while I tied up all the loose ends.
I hear that. I take care of my Dad and he is a wreck. It’s a race to the finish now as to what will give out first. Liver? Heart? Lungs? Brain?
We have the financials in order, but it IS a lot of work running two (soon to be 3; planning my escape to Beau’s farm!) households.
And you’re right. All you can do is all you can do. I have a sister that wants no part of any of this, so that makes it easier in some ways and harder in others.
I was (am) an “only” child. And all of my relatives who used to live in her town had already passed when she was in her last days. Well, there is one cousin, but she is a recluse and no help to anyone. She won’t even answer the phone.
Even most of her friends (nearly all) passed before she did. Further complicating matters is that she was nearly stone deaf in her latter months of life and had cataracts that interfered with her sight.
Those friends and relatives who are still around (all from out of town) attended her 100th Birthday Party that I threw her at her Assisted Living facility, so we did not even hold a funeral for her. She was not religious and the cemetery is in what is now a scary part of town that I knew her few friends left would not travel to. We had her buried next to my father and wrote a glowing obit which was published in the local paper. I heard from several of her former students and a few retired teachers, but that was all. I feel guilty.
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