Family Talk

Funerals Are Not Bad Things…

Posted on February 24th, 2007 by Larry.
Categories: General Family Talk, The Preston-Martin Family.

I confess to not being a funeral goer. Generally, I don’t like them and do my best to find an excuse for not being there. I understand the need to grieve, to share that grief and to bring closure to our relationship with the departed. But….I still avoid them.

I did attend the funderal of my aunt, Jean Preston Martin, not only out of respect, but because I believed it would serve as something of a family reunion, one of the things she liked the most. I appointed myself the official photographer and here I post a few of the photos, hopefully, happy memories, from the funeral. These are “thumbnails” that will go to fullsize when you click on them.

Inside St. Lawrence Basilica in Asheville.

At the gravesite:

Here are Jean’s children Ann, Tom, Lisa and Kathy

Dinner was a good occasion to renew family ties, as Jean would have wanted it.

Here is Lisa with two of her nephews, Jim Dubois and William Compton

I suppose to say “I am looking forward to the next funeral” would probably not be the right thing to say… but,

Larry Miller

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