Celebrating Elaine's Mom

 
Strangely enough, Elaine's mother died while I was still in New York, so I came to the celebration of her life today.



Many of my pictures didn't turn out very well, but I did get pictures of some of her cousins. Here she is with Nathan.



Sharon, whom I reconnected with two weeks ago was there. She's related by marriage. And two other cousins, Patty and Linda. I also reconnected with Linda two weeks ago. This was all very odd... to not see people for 50 years and then see them twice in the same month.



To complete that family of cousins, here's Elaine talking with Dan.



Apologies to any other relatives that were hoping I'd get good pictures of them. We would have needed to slow down and actually pose. The candid shots are a little too candid.

Maybe you'll see more of the church another day. It's the first time I've been back there since my own mother's funeral in 1995. Very weird feelings.

Several of us that were schoolmates and youth-group friends discussed that we think there are only three women left of our parents' generation. "We" are quickly becoming the old people. There were so many great people that helped shape us and guided our lives, and they are almost all gone. No one will really know what they were like. Soon, they'll just be names in church record books and pictures, which hopefully will get labeled.

If you a keeper of family or semi-public pictures, please label them!

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