Wow, the crap that has happened in the last week ( Read more... )

So I didn't end up going to my mother's this past weekend, and this was at the request of my brother. My brother was the one who found my mother face down on the floor, and now every time he goes into my mother's home that same image of discovering my dead mother's body continues to haunt him. I don't even know what to suggest for him, but I kind ( Read more... )

Dear Baptist Pastor At My Great-Aunt's Funeral ( Read more... )

Another missing Multilingual Monday? Yeah...

First, let me just thank everyone who called, wrote, left comments, messaged, came to services, or gave words of comfort. It means the world to me that you guys gave such heartfelt condolences in such a horrible time for my family. Thank you.

( ... the wake and funeral... )

Last night my sister called me with a grave tone in her voice. I was afraid, at first, that it would be bad news about Mom. Rather, she told me that my cousin's daughter had died ( Read more... )

( Read about the wake and funeral Thursday and Friday... )

On Thursday, January 26, There will be a wake from 5pm until 9pm at the Hann Funeral Home, 8230 Harlem, in Bridgeview.
On Friday there will be a funeral at 2PM at the Abraham Lincoln Cemetery, 27034 S Diagonal Rd, in Elwood.
NOTE: The time for the funeral has been corrected, and the name of the town where the funeral is taking place has been fixed.

We're back in Peoria after heading up to Oak Lawn for Grandpa Elia's funeral. It was odd realizing how much about my grandfather he had never told me -- how much I never knew. hearing my grandpa's last name repeatedly butchered ("Ee-lee-uh"?! Erm, no) was annoying as hell, and it amazed me more that this was by someone who'd apparently known him ( Read more... )