Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Hello everyone! Just got back from Idaho for Aunt Florence's funeral. Went with Uncle Fay. He was in Denali Park so Dad and I went down to pick him up and brought him back here. Early Sat. morning we left and that gave an extra day to connect with relatives in ID. I visited with cousins I'd never had much time with before. Was able to avert a disaster with the church reputation regarding the family's desires for the funeral. All were baptized but left activity as adults but wanted to honor their mother with having a former bishop preside. When they were told that wasn't possible they were pretty miffed. They thought the current bishop was rude in not honoring their request. So we chatted about the guidelines bishops have to follow at these times and were more understanding. The former bishop was a speaker so he wasn't left out.
Aunt Florence was a cryptic character but had a compassionate heart. She had some definite ying and yang qualities. Fay spoke and was "awesome" as one visitor expressed. He described how Florence and Bernice, a sister, had a relationship that was quite interesting. They seemed to give each other unsolicited advice constantly and shared an incident of Bernice shucking corn and Forence giving her advice on how she does it, which was not well received. These two ladies lived a good part of their lives in Buhl. I also learned that Florence spoke unkindly of my mother a few times which set the hearts of my older siblings to not come to the funeral. As Fay noted to me; he attends these funerals to be supportive of the living and he is very good in giving to all. He had no dress clothes with him so he wore his clean pair of Levis and a Pendleton shirt. He was wonderful in spite of his compromised health.
Yesterday we had another early morning flight back and stopped inAnchorage, having Lizzie and Tyler pick us up and drive us to Moose Pass where Fay rejoined his elderhostel tour. He'll have two more days with that before heading back to California.
I'm thoroughly enjoying the postings on this blogsite. Thank you, each of you, for giving us some updates on your family. I should get a camera and post some of my own photos?! Tomorrow we drive to Anchorage, possibly having Bryce with us, to attend the temple for his endowments. Exciting times for him!
Love, Mom/Grandma/Mormor
Aunt Florence was a cryptic character but had a compassionate heart. She had some definite ying and yang qualities. Fay spoke and was "awesome" as one visitor expressed. He described how Florence and Bernice, a sister, had a relationship that was quite interesting. They seemed to give each other unsolicited advice constantly and shared an incident of Bernice shucking corn and Forence giving her advice on how she does it, which was not well received. These two ladies lived a good part of their lives in Buhl. I also learned that Florence spoke unkindly of my mother a few times which set the hearts of my older siblings to not come to the funeral. As Fay noted to me; he attends these funerals to be supportive of the living and he is very good in giving to all. He had no dress clothes with him so he wore his clean pair of Levis and a Pendleton shirt. He was wonderful in spite of his compromised health.
Yesterday we had another early morning flight back and stopped inAnchorage, having Lizzie and Tyler pick us up and drive us to Moose Pass where Fay rejoined his elderhostel tour. He'll have two more days with that before heading back to California.
I'm thoroughly enjoying the postings on this blogsite. Thank you, each of you, for giving us some updates on your family. I should get a camera and post some of my own photos?! Tomorrow we drive to Anchorage, possibly having Bryce with us, to attend the temple for his endowments. Exciting times for him!
Love, Mom/Grandma/Mormor
# posted by The Cook Family @ 8/16/2006 04:02:00 PM 
