We have pictures of our Omaha grandson Aaron Lewis Chappell. He was born 5 minutes after Rachael arrived at the hospital. Her fourth. My fourth was the same. Rachael beware..... if you are like your mother, the next one will be born at home accidentally. Ethan, Sean and Jenna were very welcoming... sometimes too welcoming.
The funeral of my brother-in-law Paul Lusk is over, we stayed to make sure Leah knew what to do about paperwork etc. We went with her to the temple, social security office, grave marker stores, cemetery, Paul's office etc. We were able to stay longer because she had a friend that let us use her mom's home while the mom was in China and she actually moved out of her home for a few days where we stayed at the beginning of our trip. Kay and I drove Caleb's car from Omaha to Salt Lake and picked up the casket at Delta Cargo in Salt Lake City, picked up Janell and went to Sugar City. Kay said "if we get into an accident with this casket on top of the car we WILL make National news." Kay bought the casket on line and saved a bundle of money and got what Leah wanted, a cherry wood casket which the funeral home did not offer.
The viewing was as large as the viewing from the Sugar City resident that was killed in the Pentagon on 9/11. The viewing line went 4 hours and Leah felt renewed after the viewing. The funeral was put on by Paul's family. Several brothers spoke. He has 8 brothers who were "Paul bearers" and lowered him into the earth. One of them said it was a nice way to have closure instead of letting the funeral home lower the casket later.
Paul took care of the family financially, they will be fine so that is a relief. Kay called on an expired life policy they replaced and found the life insurance local office forgot to inform the company of termination, the payment was still coming out of automatic withdrawal, so she was double covered! They said their mistake was a blessing!
Paul's brothers follow the Bible taking care of their brother's wife. They have called her and helped her.
We are at the hospital with Frances's twin girls born last Sunday, Claire and Alice. Claire will be released tomorrow and Alice should follow shortly. They have both lost a little weight but are over 4 lbs. This is my way of multiplying and replenishing the earth.
I went to the all men meeting... Priesthood session and saw Caleb singing in the MTC choir. A joyful grandmother and mother here. Janae
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I am just glad that the casket was in a box. As crazy as it sounds it took a real picture to get the image of an exposed casket on top of your car out of my head.
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