Celebration of life...
My Aunt Kathy sent me the program from Aunt Helen's memorial service in Jacksonville, Florida. I cried...I laughed...I cried some more. Here is the cover...Note how she matured from bespectacled, conservative mother to sun hat, contact-wearing beach babe. :) Included in the program was a photocopy of Aunt Helen's handwritten funeral plans. I love #3: The title in the actual program of the eulogy is "say what needs to be said" in keeping with her plans. # 5 says "Everyone stand and sing a praise (after all, Jesus is in the service!)". It's just like Aunt Helen to direct things from Heaven. :) There is also a full page that is a brief biography of her life. If she'd only written an autobiography. The world would have been blessed by her story. This excerpt sums her up well: Helen loved Life! No matter what her children and gra ndchildren were involved in she was there in the middle of it. She loved picnics, traveling, any adventure, and ju...
