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I'm very sorry to hear of your loss, Shorty. You are in my prayers.

Thank you, thank you all for your sympathy. It really means a lot to me.

Some history, long story short my mom has been in poor health for a few years now and has lived in the nursing home for the last 2 1/2 years. Both my brother and I have made peace with the fact that chances were she would never be able to leave the home though we weren't expecting it to happen so soon. Her physical health was actually getting better. She was only 54 years old. She is at peace now.

John 14:1-3:1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

We had this verse put on the inside of some kind of card the funeral home printed up for us. We felt it was appropriate.

One very touching thing happened today. I had previously arranged to have 3 days off in a row in about a week so I could spend time with my dad who was coming into town to visit. He had his flight changed and is coming in tonight for the funeral so I called my store manager to let him know I could and would like to work those days to try to make up for some of the hours I'm missing this week. He asked me where to send flowers and I told him what we've been telling everybody, that in lieu of flowers we are requesting donations to the church building fund. Well, without skipping a beat he asked me to get the information for that and he would talk to our district manager. Seems to me my store was going to send flowers and instead will make a donation to the church. That really touched me. I could see my manager maybe sending some flowers or something personally but to have my company do it is really nice.

Shorty, it sounds like you work for a great boss who is looking out for you. In a corporation like AutoZone, it's easy to become just another employee or even just another number on the payroll, and it's great that your boss recognizes you as an individual person as well as a valuable employee.

Your mother was so young and it sounds like she had a hard life, from what you told me previously. I am so glad you have family and friends to help you during this difficult time.

Peace to you.

Whazzup wrote:Shorty, it sounds like you work for a great boss who is looking out for you. In a corporation like AutoZone, it's easy to become just another employee or even just another number on the payroll, and it's great that your boss recognizes you as an individual person as well as a valuable employee.

Your mother was so young and it sounds like she had a hard life, from what you told me previously. I am so glad you have family and friends to help you during this difficult time.

Peace to you.

To corporate I know I'm nothing but a number but I already knew I had a wonderful manager who really likes me but didn't know he was this wonderful.


The service today went quite well. It was very touching. My DSIL sang the solo of a very touching song that's in Latin while my brother (both are professional musicians and are very talented) directed the small choir they put together. My brother got up in front of the church and talked a minute and translated the words of the song. I couldn't have done it, I would have broke down. my DSIL's solo made my entire family cry and we know the only reason she didn't break down in the middle was because the Lord was by her side helping her. The pastor also spoke quite well.

A number of friends showed up we weren't expecting. A woman that was my mom's best friend for many years who has lived in Texas for a number of years now made it to the service. We were hoping she could make it but weren't sure she would. Two of my mom's cousins (which there are a LOT of) and a cousin by marriage (married to yet another cousin) came in. We didn't expect any of the cousins to show up.

Couldn't spend as much time with my uncle and his wife as I would have liked because they had to head back home shortly after the service. Our aunt and her husband took my brother, his wife, and me out to eat this evening so we got to spend some quality time with them. My dad will be in the area for a few more days and tomorrow we have plans to spend time together.

One of our ideas of what to do with our mom's ashes is to either have them buried by her father up in LaGrange, GA or interred in a urn vault there if they have them. She was very close to her father before he passed a very long time ago and we feel it would be fitting. Our aunt who lives in GA agrees is going to look into that for us. As they live in the same area my brother will talk to our uncle to make sure that is fine with him.

This may be a blessing in disguise. Her passing may allow me to do some things with my life to make it better I was unable to do with her in a nursing home. I won't go into the details here nor at this time though.

Thank you all so very much for your sympathy. It means a lot to me. I wish I could hug you all. :hug:

you are hugged and a prayer for you and your family.