Aunt Karma's Funeral

Sweet Aunt Karma passed away this October shortly after a fall in her home.  I took the boys to the graveside funeral.  They were so cute.  They had just had a lesson that Sunday in their primary class on service and had made all these paper flowers .  They came up with the idea that they each wanted to bring a paper flower to Karma’s daughter Susan. 

So as soon as Susan arrived at the gravesite and found her seat, they ran up to her and presented her with their flowers.  She held them through the whole ceremony and then buried them with the Karma. A few days later she remarked on how thoughtful that was.  The boys loved the little opportunity of a reunion with all their favorite cousins and aunts and uncles mid week in the middle of the day.  

The funeral was lovely.  The person giving the life sketch actually read a bunch of excerpts from Karma’s own writings which was just perfect at capturing the essence on Karma.  It was like she was there telling us all stories like she would do every time we went to visit.  Then, the boys and I had to run to a music class, but Derek surprised Liv and picked her up early for school to go enjoy the family luncheon after the funeral.