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A Few Final Words And Some Pictures

12/3/2020

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       After my mother's death her body was transported back to Seaford, Delaware, where she had lived for twenty-five  years until the last year of her life which she spent in Gahanna, Ohio at the Sunrise of Gahanna senior care facility. Her funeral was in Seaford on December 1, a week and a day after she died (See post from 11/25/2020).
        My mother spent a hundred-and-a-half years on the planet. She had five children, nineteen grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, and too many friends and acquaintances to count.
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were five people at her burial. The COVID-19 pandemic has without a doubt been  the creator of many sad ironies.
       Her funeral service was a brief outdoor blessing by the parish priest,
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...followed by taps, as my mom was a veteran,
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...an Army nurse during World War II.
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      Present at my mom's funeral were two of my brothers, their wives, and my mother's household helper/caregiver/guardian angel and dear friend of many years, Fran (See post from 5/28/2014, "Funny Ladies.").
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      The rest of us who loved her could be there only in spirit. As she now is with us.
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      I miss you, Mom. Rest in peace.
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