Grandma has a love of life that is contagious
Grandma is optimistic and grateful
Grandma makes you feel good about yourself
Grandma loves her family
Grandma left us a legacy of love
Grandma is beautiful- inside and out
We love you, Grandma. We love you, Granddad.
Wendy
Grandma is optimistic and grateful
Grandma makes you feel good about yourself
Grandma loves her family
Grandma left us a legacy of love
Grandma is beautiful- inside and out
We love you, Grandma. We love you, Granddad.
Wendy
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I am glad Wendy posted something so I could get some thoughts down. Sorry if they are not coherent.
I am very proud of Grandma. She is an example of courage and grace in facing this part of her life.
Grandma lifts those around her. I liked visiting with Grandma because she made me feel like I was nailing everything (even I wasn't).
I loved Grandma's Boston background-Her love of the Sox, Tom Brady, etc. Most of all her Boston accent.
I like hearing Grandad, Uncle Burke, Aunt Robin, and Mom talk about Grandma when they were kids. I feel lucky to have a mother who was raised by such a fine mother as well.
I don't know who introduced us to it (Grandma or Grandad), but I love bloody bread and no our kids do to.
I am glad Grandma seemed happy before she died. I am glad she is in a happy place. When I heard about her passing, I thought of the poem from Wordsworth.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home...
It is comforting to know that Grandma is with those who went before her and is home with her heavenly family.
I'm so glad that Wendy posted as well. I've been thinking about Grandma and great memories with her.
I love Grandma because she is so much fun and she loves doing fun things. I remember great beach trips and picnics and shopping and movie nights with her.
I love Grandma because she loves being with family. I always feel so loved when I visit Grandma and Grandpa.
I love Grandma because she is a great mom, Grandma and great Grandma. She is patient and loving and always makes me feel like I can do anything.
Grandma, like Wendy said, is beautiful inside and out. On lucky days I feel like I look like my mom who looks so much like Grandma.
I love Grandma because she is such a great example of cheerfulness, goodness, and patience. I hope I can be like her.
I feel so blessed to be part of her and Grandpa's family. What a great heritage.
Love, prayers and thoughts to Grandma and Grandpa.
The poem John posted is one of my favorites. I also feel comfort when I think about Grandma in heaven, earthly cares and pain over, active like she always was, and with friends and family that love her. I look forward to being together there someday.
It was amazing to me how close I felt to Grandma and Grandpa Dunlap from the time I first joined the family. It's more like they are another set of my real grandparents, and not just my husband's grandparents. I love them and have felt so loved by them every time we have been together or spoken over the phone or on Skype as well. I am so grateful that in the 6.5 years I have been a Bennion, we have gotten to be with the Dunlaps so many times. Christmas 2004, Easter 2007, Christmas 2007, Summer 2008, David's wedding, Summer 2010...those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. I love Grandma Dunlap because she gave her love so easily and fully. She wants the best for and thinks the best of her children and grandchildren. She was happy and found joy in so many things, big and small. She was game to go along with whatever was on the agenda, it seemed because the most important thing to her was just being around her loved ones. She is a wonderful example of gratitude, always very vocal about giving thanks for things people gave her, said to her or did for her. What a wonderful person to have as a grandma. I love you both, Grandma and Grandpa.
Amy
My turn...but there are no words adequate to describe my love for my mother. The life of a mother and a child is in the little things - the day-to-day living things - meals cooked and cleaned up, shopping trips together, errands run together, jobs done together. I was so lucky to have a mom who taught me how to cook and sew and clean a house. Mom made our holidays so magical and fun. She was rock solid...always there...always my number one support and cheerleader. She was warm and fun with our friends...she took joy and pleasure in our joys....things as small as a birthday present to things as big as the births of each of my children. Mom loved to see me happy. She worried over my school anxieties and encouraged me to lighten up. She couldn't have been a better mother. I felt absolutely secure in her love and devotion. My mind has been filled with 60 years of "snapshots" of life with her. I feel grateful to the marrow of my bones to be her daughter!!!
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