Arrangements

If anyone out there wants to send flowers, the facility is John M. Ireland funeral home in Moore, OK.

Wednesday will be an all day open visitation.

Services are Thursday morning at 11 at the funeral home, procession to cemetery.  No church service.

We got everything done yesterday.  Dad, Aunt Betty, Aunt Dolores, Dave, and myself all met at the funeral home and got everything done.  I picked out her clothing and got it to them without Dad having to see that.

Back at the house, I went through the calendar and found doctor's office numbers, and canceled mom's eye doctor, GP, and psychiatrist appointments that were written down for October, and notified those offices of her passing.

The psychiatrist called Dave later, and was in tears.

We gave Dad her wedding band, which Dave had removed from her hand when she was still in the hospital, but Dad said he didn't want her to be buried with it, that I was to keep it.  I am going to pass it on to their only grand daughter.

Dad said he thought there wasn't any life insurance on Mom, but eventually found out otherwise, so the funeral is going to be paid for out of those funds.

Mom had told us that the funerals were all arranged and paid for already, but , in fact, she had only gotten Dad's taken care of.  Hers was not yet arranged, so we had to do it from scratch.

Dave's next eldest brother wrote the obituary, and we finalized it in the funeral home office.

Dave and his eldest brother are discussing trying to get Dad to transfer power of attorney to the eldest.  It's time.


All the way around, this experience has been very traumatic and sad since mid-July.

It's been a very long summer.