One year ago today my father passed away. I think about him just about every day. I miss you dad!
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Visiting Dad
On our way home from Charlottesville, we stopped at the Culpeper National Cemetery to visit my dad’s grave. It was good to visit him and for my husband to see where his resting place is. Another row of graves had been added since I was last there.
New Grave Stone
So…my father died last November. He was cremated and his ashes were buried in the Culpeper National Cemetery. His grave stone did not show his service in Korea so we had to have it corrected. Today I was able to get down to Culpeper and see his corrected grave stone. I’m glad they corrected it to accurately show his service to our country. It was good to finally see his spot in the cemetery. Here’s a picture.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to everyone to stops by my blog and keeps up with my adventures.
Today is my father’s birthday. He would have been 88 years old today. I miss him. Here’s a photo from 2011.
Each year I try to remember to post a selfie on the first of the year so I can see how I’m getting older every year. Here’s this year’s selfie photo.
I walked a total of 2.81 miles today. No exercise app though.
Home
Yesterday, once I realized my father had died and I was sure, I called my family members who were in town and they called other family members. I also called Hospice and they sent out an RN to pronounce him dead. It took an hour and 20 minutes for that guy to show up. While I waited I kept checking to make sure my father was dead. He was.
My brother showed up and we had a good cry. Shortly after the Hospice RN showed up and officially pronounced him dead at 6:59 AM November 15, 2018. The Hospice RN called the funeral home and talked with the nurse on duty to stop medications.
As you saw in the pictures from yesterday, the funeral home showed up and took my father away. He will be cremated on Saturday.
The rest of the family that was in town gathered by noon and started to pack up his room. My sister seems to think that the faster we get his things out, we might get a refund on the portion left for the month. She’s heartless. She’s only been concerned with money during this whole process.
At 3:30 yesterday we met with the funeral home and made all the arrangements. All that’s left is the will and financial stuff. I’m not an executer so I don’t have to worry about that.
Because everything got taken care of yesterday, I came home today. My in-laws are here for 12 days. Thanksgiving is next week.
I took a long walk this afternoon. I walked 2.58 miles with the exercise app. No picture today.