Today we are in California for Grandma Shirley’s memorial service. Dad has been sending me messages letting me know that Grandma hasn’t been doing very well and that she wasn’t expected to live very much longer. Since he had said that she was pretty much unresponsive, Kyle and I decided not to try to make the trip before she died to try to see her, but to just wait until after her passing. That way we could just use Kyle’s bereavement time to make the trip instead of using PTO. Things actually worked out better for us having planned to wait on coming down. Grandma passed away on the 14th, but dad and Uncle Mark and Aunt Glenda decided to schedule the service for today, the 28th. Had we come down as soon as we knew she wasn’t going to live much longer, or right after we got word that she had passed, then we wouldn’t have been able to stick around long enough to be in town for the service.
Dad asked Kyle to make the program for the service. Aunt Glenda and Charity gave the eulogy. Dad and Wendy both gave talks. Uncle Mark and Aunt Tammy gave the opening and closing prayers. I got to lead the music, and I also put together a slide show. There ended up not being any way to show the slide show at the service though. We couldn’t show it in the chapel, and we didn’t have access to a tv or projector and screen to be able to show it after the service at the luncheon. We decided to show it at mom & dad’s house later that evening. I was told that everyone would be coming over, however they ended up not coming at all. So I got to just make copies of the slide show onto dvd’s and they got passed out later.
Kyle did walk around at the luncheon to take some pictures for me.
