I just got a phone call from my dad. He was calling to let me know that his mother, my grandmother, passed away this morning.
I can’t really say this is a surprise – she was over 90 years old. Still, I could hear it in his voice – dad wants to go to the services, but I doubt he’s going to be in any shape to drive. Normally, I think I’d just send flowers, but I think I’m going to have to go so I can take him.
Boy, it’s been rough on our family the last few years. One of my cousins committed suicide, a step-cousin was hit by a train and killed, one of my aunts died (and a step-aunt died of renal failure due to diabetes), one of my nephews was killed in a car accident, my step-mom died of cancer, and now this.
Vernon Pope 
Wow, Vernon… I’m very sorry for your losses….
Love, Anita
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Thank you. I’m fine, but I know that Dad is taking it hard.
You will probably have a very good experience if you go…
I know that our reality is what we create it to be, but I don’t think I’m going to have a good experience with this. In the last 15 years, we’ve lost 3 grandfathers (my mom’s dad, my dad’s step-dad, and my wife’s paternal dad), and all those others listed in the post. Not one of those funerals went well, and ALL of the pastors involved treated the occasion like a recruitment drive. The only thing that came remotely close to “closure” was reading the obit word-for-word exactly as it was published in the newspaper. I’d honestly rather stay home.
OK, I’m convinced. LOL
This is so sad. Last year, it was Helen and Kevin, and now this.