Dad and Mom - Rest in Peace.
6 years ago
I picked up dad's ashes today, had thought I was just getting the death certificates. Emotions all over the place right now but I'll get thru it. I think I'll wait till the AZ Monsoon is over before I spread his ashes along side mom's up on the Mountain - they should be together. Been a long time since she passed in 2003.
Update: Yesterday - 9/14/2019 I placed Dad's ashes up with Mom's on the Peaks outside of Flagstaff. Bit of a shock when I rolled back a certain large rock that had been undisturbed for years - I could tell Mom was still there. Both of them are together now after 16 years. Huge boulder as a memorial and a nice spruce and aspen grove around them. They both loved hiking that one trail when mom was still lucid enough to go out (early stages of Alzheimers.)
Update: Yesterday - 9/14/2019 I placed Dad's ashes up with Mom's on the Peaks outside of Flagstaff. Bit of a shock when I rolled back a certain large rock that had been undisturbed for years - I could tell Mom was still there. Both of them are together now after 16 years. Huge boulder as a memorial and a nice spruce and aspen grove around them. They both loved hiking that one trail when mom was still lucid enough to go out (early stages of Alzheimers.)
The rest of the family is pretty much gone except for one cousin I stay in touch with in Pennsylvania and then some cousins over in Norway.