Return to Scenes from (sur)real lifeA serious Message.
(written on 12th of December)Bad news for the Dunehew household. On November 1st, Wife's grandmother passed away following a bout with failing health. The day of Grandma's funeral, November 4th, Father-in-law complained of ill health after the funeral. He went to lie down at Grandma's, where all the out-of-town in-laws had been staying. At 6:00 that evening, wife got a call from a friend who saw an ambulance in front of Grandma's house. She called & found it was there for her father, who had just collapsed. Wife went to the hospital to meet the ambulance, but Father-in-law never made it to the Hospital.
Father-in-law was given a grave-side service & buried next to his mother (Grandma). I had never before that week attended an open casket funeral. Within the space of a few days, I had now been to two, and was a pallbearer at the second. I would have been much happier if the opportunity had been indefinitely postponed. Grandma raised Wife, and was the only real mother she ever knew. Her father was a genial fellow whom I never had the opportunity to get to know. I won't have that opportunity again. Wife's grandma was my favorite amongst Wife's relatives, as well. We'll miss them both.