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shindell-list-digest      Sunday, October 1 2006      Volume 08 : Number 162



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  [RS] Funeral for a friend                             [lisa@sharinglaw.net]

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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:18:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: lisa@sharinglaw.net
Subject: [RS] Funeral for a friend

I went to a client's funeral today -- a wonderful old woman of 97 who had
her wits to the end, with humor and a lot of impatience that she hadn't
left already.  Her extended family was present, children, grandchildren,
cousin's children, and their children, and the close friends who had grown
up with them.  Her granddaughter, a minister, read a carefully secular
collection of family memories,and at the end of the graveside ceremony,
her grandson took up the guitar, and I realized with surprise I knew the
song:  "Hazel's House."  His voice quivered when he sang " and no one
seems to know that this is Heaven."  And everybody's eyes got a little
watery.

Lisa Davis
Meriden, CT

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