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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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 Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 10:11:37 AM
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Oh, Lucinda, I know this is a rough time for you. I'm sending you light and love and healing thoughts. Please know we are with you in spirit, and that your Granddy is released from her pain. (((hugs)))
May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. ~~Apache Blessing
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 10:27:59 AM
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Oh Lucinda, giving you a big hug now. Sorry that you lost a true light in your life...She is in JOY now after a good life. Bless you!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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BlueEggBabe
True Blue Farmgirl
417 Posts
Susan
PA
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Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 10:31:05 AM
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Lucinda,
I am relieved for you that your Grandmother's suffering is over but sad that she will leave such a void in your life.
Your post about her care with the hungry kids in the cafeteria brought tears to my eyes. She must have the biggest heart.
She deserved all the love and care she received at the end of her life
((Hugs)) to you while you go through this difficult time.
"If more of us valued good food, cheer and song above hoarded gold,the world would be a merrier place."
J.J.R.Tolkien |
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lamarguerite farm
True Blue Farmgirl
649 Posts
missy
Battle Ground
Wa
USA
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Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 12:47:34 PM
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Lucinda- My prayers are with you. It is difficult to deal with the loss, but as you referred to her going to her savior, one can only imagine the peace and joy she must be experiencing at this very moment.
Blessings,
Missy
If you have a dream, even if you don't feel qualified to accomplish it, just try your hardest.-Maggie Jensen |
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lareyna
True Blue Farmgirl
242 Posts
Arlene
Valley Ford
Ca
USA
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Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 1:21:44 PM
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I am so sorry for your loss, I never had a Grandma but I lost my mom 7 years ago and I really feel for you, be strong, she was, but don't be too strong it's ok to feel the feelings
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
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Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 5:15:15 PM
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Lucinda, I am so sorry for your loss. It is a difficult road to travel. I still miss my grandma sorely after 9 years. I dream of her often and feel she is my guardian angel. Know you are in my thoughts.
(((hugs))))))))
farmgirl@heart
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ByHzGrace
True Blue Farmgirl
348 Posts
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Posted - Oct 10 2005 : 04:54:03 AM
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Dearest Lucinda
You have such a way for framing images.Your written memories tell the spirit of your bond,through your words you let us live a bit with Grandy and you! How do you remember your first memory of sleeping over at *Grandy's* by yourself? I held Grandy in prayer in my morning devotions and will uphold you both now:God of mercy, look kindly on Lucinda’s Grandy who has set down the burden of her years. As she served You faithfully throughout her life, may You give her the fullness of Your peace and joy. We give thanks for the long life of Grandy now caught up in Your eternal love.Amen.
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showmemom
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
karen
carthage
mo
USA
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Posted - Oct 10 2005 : 5:44:51 PM
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dear lucinda-
have been away from the board for several days-i am so sorry for your loss-i know you must be very sad but i am so relieved and glad that your Granddy has gone home. It's so hard at the end-i'm so sorry you've had to walk through that. know that we are all praying and thinking of you and yours. it will eventually get easier but these days are tough-take special care to be gentle with yourself and others.
talk to you soon.
karen
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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thehouseminder
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
USA
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Posted - Oct 10 2005 : 6:30:53 PM
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You are all so sweet! Granddy's funeral was today and what a glorious fall day it was! Sunny skies with temps in the sixties. I could not help but think how delighted she would be that we weren't getting rained or snowed on. We laid her next to my Grandfather who passed away fifteen years ago.
Since Ellen asked, I would be happy to share another memory.
The first time I remember staying overnight at Graddy's House was when Mom was in labor with my youngest brother. I was seven and my brother was four. Granddy lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa, which is a railroad town. As a matter of fact, President Lincoln was a guest at General Dodge's house in Council Bluffs and it was there that the General took Lincoln to the top of one of the bluffs, showed him the incredible view of the Missouri River Valley and the vast prairies that lay beyond, and convinced him that Council Bluffs should be the Eastern Terminis of the Union Pacific Railroad. The residents of Council Bluffs are near one of the biggest "switch yards" in the country and anytime you stop to listen, you can here the soft, low whistle of the trains, and the faint sound of railroad cars being coupled and uncoupled.
We lived in a neighboring town about a half hour's drive away. Mom went into labor in the evening and she and Dad dropped my brother and I off at our grandparent's house on the way to the hospital. We were so excited. Mom and Dad had allowed us to pick names. I can't remember what names we had picked for a girl. I was just determined that I would have another brother and we would name him Kevin Patrick. Granddy put us to bed but we couldn't sleep anymore than if it were Christmas Eve. I'm sure that Granddy would dearly have loved to sleep but she got back up and sneaked us past our snoring Grandpa into the kitchen. There we watched as she mixed up cream, sugar, and vanilla and put it into an ice cream maker. Then we talked about the new baby and listened to the reassuring sound of coal cars passing to the South as we all took turns cranking the ice cream into being. After tummies full of ice cream we finally fell asleep, we three, with Grandma on the sofa and our heads in her lap.
Sometime, around 7:30a.m., Daddy called to say that Kevin Patrick had entered the world at 7:07 weighing 7 pounds and 7 ounces. Grandma said, "He's my seventh grandson too!" Then she winked at me and said with a grin, "You still get to have a bedroom to yourself!"
Now how did she know I was worried about that?
She was infamous for that grin. I remember a time when my brother, Frank, and I were staying with her for a day. Grandpa was at his job as a Railroad Inspector. She decided we needed to find him but I can't remember why. She drove us down to the switch yard, my brother and I in the backseat, and turned into an area she felt Grandpa would be in. She selected a train, a moving one, and began driving, next to it, toward the engine. We had to look between every car because after inspecting couplers, Grandpa would ride one train to the end of the next one to be inspected. I was just thinking we were moving awfully fast when Granddy glanced over the seat at our ashen faces and declared with that famous grin, "I'll bet you didn't know your Granddy raced freight trains!" and away we went until he was found.
Such a character! I think it is her gentle mischief that I will miss most of all.
Lucinda
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ---Bronson Alcott
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ByHzGrace
True Blue Farmgirl
348 Posts
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Posted - Oct 10 2005 : 9:07:58 PM
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Bless you for sharing your day. (((We all wish we could hug you in person right now.)))
Your loss is a measure of the depth of love that is in every word you wrote. What a blessing this love…and you expand it by letting us feel it too.I'm richer for(((you)))and Grandy still alive in you!
Lucinda, you had to know webe laughin about the train racing.Thanks sweetpea I gotta say I am so there zooming along with y’all. Did you ever go out and stick dimes on the tracks?
Thanks too for letting us in on Kevin’s entrance into your world. Did Grandy have nicknames for you and the boys? |
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