In Memory of Grandpa

Last week was another sad week. My Grandpa passed away on the 1st of July. My parents came in for the weekend of the 4th. That was a good time. Dad helped Mike to work on replacing our sink drain in the pink bathroom. Now we have all new pipes and fixtures in our two upstairs bathrooms. Yeah! On Monday we went to Grandpa's funeral in St. Louis. It was a small and quiet affair. Almost everyone there was family. We were able to see my cousins and her new baby girl whose name is Sarah not Keira as we had at first thought. The one thought that I had at the funeral was that it wasn't very personal. Since my Grandpa didn't go to church he was just buried by someone from the funeral home and they just quoted a few Bible verses and said a few nice impersonal things. Grandpa was in the Navy in WWII so they mentioned a few things about his service. It was all a little sad to me. So unlike the church funerals that I have been to where they know the person and can say things about that persons life.

I must admit that I did not know my Grandpa as well as my Grandma. I did know that he loved and collected trains. He had huge tables of trains set up in the basement. We haven't been down there in years because Grandpa could no longer go down the stairs. It was fun when we were little though. I once made him a train pillowcase and at the funeral Grandma Joyce said that he was buried with it. He loved that pillowcase. I remember that everytime we went to Grandpa and Grandma Joyce's house we came home with lots of toys. That was the coolest thing. Even recently we went and now they were showering gifts on our boys. Grandpa never met Keira. That is mostly my fault because I didn't go over to see him. I did send him a picture of her though.

On Tuesday of last week we went to drop off the ashes of my Grandma who was creamated. She is buried very close to our house so I can go visit her every once in a while. She is also buried in the same cemetary as Paster Fred. I went for the first time to see his grave. They still do not have the permanent headstone up so I suspect it will take a while for Grandma's headstone.

This has been my life for the past week.