Awake: 4:40am Temp 22 Snow showers Overnight @ Nicktown
K & I have our coffee & each eat ½ of one of her healthy muffins……then my
brother Don & his wife Josie pick us up @ 6:12am.....we spent 3.7 hrs
traveling to Massillon, Ohio for the wake & funeral of our Uncle Johnny.
Weather en route was on & off again snow showers with no accumulation.
One thing about funerals: they are usually sad & melancholy because you
know the deceased will be missed dearly and this one was no exception.
Following the wake we processed by cars to St Joseph church for the
funeral Mass, then to the cemetery for the interment & then back to the
St. Joseph school basement for lunch.
During lunch, the atmosphere changed, it was like a reunion: relatives,
friends & families began visiting one another @ their tables & there was
laughter. Even my Aunt Bertha, Johnny’s widow, was cheery. We reunited
with people we hadn’t seen or thought about for yrs, even decades. We
were comforted that we were able to attend this gathering of my Uncle’s
going away party.
We leave the St. Joseph school lunch area @ 2:45pm….reverse course &
again, watch the weather of on & off again snow showers going back to PA
arriving @ 6:25pm. My brother is an excellent driver & they are both very
pleasant to hang out with.
8:15 dinner: popcorn, assorted cheeses & almonds while watching a DVD
movie from the Foote collection: “Fifty First Dates” with Adam Sandler &
Drew Barrymore. A movie perhaps more suitable for the younger teen group
with the exception that, as too often happens, Hollywood promotes sex
before marriage.
Lights out: 10:17pm
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