Funeral

On May 21, 2012 My 92 year old grandma Yvonne Nelson was mercifully released from this world.  She had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for many years and had been more rapidly declining over the past few years.  As common with Parkinson's  she was losing much of her motor functioning including her ability to swallow.  A complication of this can be aspiration pneumonia, which is what occurred with my grandma.  After she contracted pneumonia she was hospitalized and then transferred to hospice care.  She passed away a few days later. 

Some of my favorite memories of my grandma

• The "Burglar Boy" song
• Seeing her real hair.  Joking with her about taking off her hair. (She started wearing a wig in the 60s or 70s and liked it so much she wore one all the time.)
• Playing "rummy" with her
• Having sleepovers with my cousins at her house and having her make us waffles with strawberries and whipped cream
• Thanksgiving at her house every year, and her famous cinnamon rolls
• Her red candy dish always filled with candy
• "Nips"
• Sugar Easter eggs that she found in her cupboard once and fed to us even though they were a few years old.
• Going to visit her in Seattle when I was a little girl and riding a ferry
• Her soft wrinkly skin
  
  Since she had been sick and declining for so long it seemed like we lost her several years ago.  Her passing was a bittersweet day for her family.  We are sad to see her leave us but we are happy because now she can be reunited with my "Grumpy Grandpa" and be young and free again.  Love you grandma.

8 out of my 9 siblings and my parents.

My Aunt Betty, mom, Uncle David and Aunt Beverly.  These are my grandma's 4 kids.