back home again

Well, I am back, and I have *so* much to do to get things taken care of.

My Nanny passed away on February 2nd and we had her memorial service
last night, with a graveside service this morning at 11am. However,
because of the ice storm that was due to cross our path, Ken, the
children and I did not go to the graveside service.

They remembered her as she was, full of life, a spit-fire who didn't
take anything from anybody. A regular fixture on the rt50 bridge into
Ocean City, MD as she fished for flounder, or dropped crab pots over the
side. She owned a Thunderbird!! that she wanted me to have, but that I
passed along to my mother because you can't fit 2 carseats into a
Thunderbird safely.

A childhood friend of mine came down to visit with Nanny and the family
a few days before she died and now this friend and i are back in touch
with each other. We had been best friends up until we were 18 or 19
when our lives got entirely too crazy, but now, Nanny has brought us
back together again.

I think Nanny would have enjoyed her service and everything that went
with it - she had a wooden casket with an embroidered panel of mallards
in flight, porcelain mallards on each of the 4 corners of the casket,
and she was buried in her favorite color - forest green - with a
baseball cap on and mallard earrings and broach.

We put together 3 posters of pictures. One was just of her, from her
younger days (age 4) until the recent days, one was her with other
people from when she was younger (and the cars of her youth), and the
final one was of recent pictures of her with opther people and her
recent cars. Some of the pictures made us all start laughing because
they showed sides that we weren't familiar with.

Well, she is with her sisters, brother, parents, and eldest son now, but
I'm sure that she won't hesitate to give me a smack from above when I do
something silly.

Larisa, thankful to have this groups for its thoughts, prayers, and presence

Your Nanny will live forever, Larissa. She is still laughing, I'm sure.
I couldn't ask for such a wonderful set of vignettes to leave to friends and
family.

The T-bird and fishing off the bridge in the sunshine made me smile and wish
I had been one of her friends, too.

Mim
"CNYstitcher" wrote in message
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Well, I am back, and I have *so* much to do to get things taken care of.

My Nanny passed away on February 2nd and we had her memorial service
last night, with a graveside service this morning at 11am. However,
because of the ice storm that was due to cross our path, Ken, the
children and I did not go to the graveside service.

They remembered her as she was, full of life, a spit-fire who didn't
take anything from anybody. A regular fixture on the rt50 bridge into
Ocean City, MD as she fished for flounder, or dropped crab pots over the
side. She owned a Thunderbird!! that she wanted me to have, but that I
passed along to my mother because you can't fit 2 carseats into a
Thunderbird safely.

A childhood friend of mine came down to visit with Nanny and the family
a few days before she died and now this friend and i are back in touch
with each other. We had been best friends up until we were 18 or 19
when our lives got entirely too crazy, but now, Nanny has brought us
back together again.

I think Nanny would have enjoyed her service and everything that went
with it - she had a wooden casket with an embroidered panel of mallards
in flight, porcelain mallards on each of the 4 corners of the casket,
and she was buried in her favorite color - forest green - with a
baseball cap on and mallard earrings and broach.

We put together 3 posters of pictures. One was just of her, from her
younger days (age 4) until the recent days, one was her with other
people from when she was younger (and the cars of her youth), and the
final one was of recent pictures of her with opther people and her
recent cars. Some of the pictures made us all start laughing because
they showed sides that we weren't familiar with.

Well, she is with her sisters, brother, parents, and eldest son now, but
I'm sure that she won't hesitate to give me a smack from above when I do
something silly.

Larisa, thankful to have this groups for its thoughts, prayers, and
presence

What a lovely tribute, Larisa. Your nanny sounds like a warm and
wonderful person that would make everybody around her feel happy to
know her. It's lovely you will have fond thoughts and memories of her
forever.

((hugs)) Denise in Ontario, Cananda


On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 01:15:36 GMT, CNYstitcher
wrote:

Well, I am back, and I have *so* much to do to get things taken care of.

My Nanny passed away on February 2nd and we had her memorial service
last night, with a graveside service this morning at 11am. However,
because of the ice storm that was due to cross our path, Ken, the
children and I did not go to the graveside service.

They remembered her as she was, full of life, a spit-fire who didn't
take anything from anybody. A regular fixture on the rt50 bridge into
Ocean City, MD as she fished for flounder, or dropped crab pots over the
side. She owned a Thunderbird!! that she wanted me to have, but that I
passed along to my mother because you can't fit 2 carseats into a
Thunderbird safely.

A childhood friend of mine came down to visit with Nanny and the family
a few days before she died and now this friend and i are back in touch
with each other. We had been best friends up until we were 18 or 19
when our lives got entirely too crazy, but now, Nanny has brought us
back together again.

I think Nanny would have enjoyed her service and everything that went
with it - she had a wooden casket with an embroidered panel of mallards
in flight, porcelain mallards on each of the 4 corners of the casket,
and she was buried in her favorite color - forest green - with a
baseball cap on and mallard earrings and broach.

We put together 3 posters of pictures. One was just of her, from her
younger days (age 4) until the recent days, one was her with other
people from when she was younger (and the cars of her youth), and the
final one was of recent pictures of her with opther people and her
recent cars. Some of the pictures made us all start laughing because
they showed sides that we weren't familiar with.

Well, she is with her sisters, brother, parents, and eldest son now, but
I'm sure that she won't hesitate to give me a smack from above when I do
something silly.

Larisa, thankful to have this groups for its thoughts, prayers, and presence

I'm glad you made it! I was praying for your safety 'cause of the weather.

--
Cindy Bettinger

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"CNYstitcher" wrote in message
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Well, I am back, and I have *so* much to do to get things taken care of.

My Nanny passed away on February 2nd and we had her memorial service
last night, with a graveside service this morning at 11am. However,
because of the ice storm that was due to cross our path, Ken, the
children and I did not go to the graveside service.

They remembered her as she was, full of life, a spit-fire who didn't
take anything from anybody. A regular fixture on the rt50 bridge into
Ocean City, MD as she fished for flounder, or dropped crab pots over the
side. She owned a Thunderbird!! that she wanted me to have, but that I
passed along to my mother because you can't fit 2 carseats into a
Thunderbird safely.

A childhood friend of mine came down to visit with Nanny and the family
a few days before she died and now this friend and i are back in touch
with each other. We had been best friends up until we were 18 or 19
when our lives got entirely too crazy, but now, Nanny has brought us
back together again.

I think Nanny would have enjoyed her service and everything that went
with it - she had a wooden casket with an embroidered panel of mallards
in flight, porcelain mallards on each of the 4 corners of the casket,
and she was buried in her favorite color - forest green - with a
baseball cap on and mallard earrings and broach.

We put together 3 posters of pictures. One was just of her, from her
younger days (age 4) until the recent days, one was her with other
people from when she was younger (and the cars of her youth), and the
final one was of recent pictures of her with opther people and her
recent cars. Some of the pictures made us all start laughing because
they showed sides that we weren't familiar with.

Well, she is with her sisters, brother, parents, and eldest son now, but
I'm sure that she won't hesitate to give me a smack from above when I do
something silly.

Larisa, thankful to have this groups for its thoughts, prayers, and
presence