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Family Matters:  Mom passed away this evening.  |
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cmandle
True Blue Farmgirl
846 Posts
Catherine
Minneapolis
MN
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_Rebecca_
True Blue Farmgirl
568 Posts
Rebecca
OK
USA
568 Posts |
 Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 1:49:06 PM
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Dear Georgeann,
My condolences. Thank you for sharing the story of your family's reconciliation. God be praised. What a touching way to let a loved one go. Please let us know if there are specific ways we can be praying for you and your family at this time.
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kitchensqueen
True Blue Farmgirl
521 Posts
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Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 2:00:27 PM
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Georgann, you have my deepest condolences on the passing of your mother. It's such a blessing your family has re-unified at this event, and your mother can be in peace with the knowledge in her heart that you all together once again.
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
1607 Posts
Michelle
Rosalia
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Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 3:18:31 PM
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| Sure thinking of you and your family in your loss. Hope you rest up and remember the blessings. |
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shelle
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Shelle
oklahoma
USA
404 Posts |
Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 3:24:52 PM
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((((Georgeann)))))
I am so sorry for the loss of your mother. The story of her passing was very touching and brought tears to my eyes. Thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful moment from your life with all of us. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. God Bless you for the wonderful way you took care of your mother in her last days. I hope I can take care of my parents when their times come the way you took care of your mom. I admire you very much.
Shelle
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gregs_lil_farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
219 Posts
birdi
hartford
me
USA
219 Posts |
Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 4:28:39 PM
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Aunt George, my deepest sympathy to you and your family. You have truly been an angel here with all the care that you have given throughout your life. The next few days will still be very trying...please be sure to find time to love and care for yourself as well. My thoughts are with you.
-Simple pleasures make my heart smile-
www.fouracrefarmgirl.blogspot.com |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 5:34:23 PM
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thank you all so very much. I truly feel the love and warmth in your messages. Your words and well wishes have truly given me strength in facing my present.
Thank you again from the bottom of my heart.
Georgann
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
1940 Posts |
Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 8:28:59 PM
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Georgeanne, my sympathies go to you tonight. Thank you for sharing this beautiful story with us. What seems like the end of the world to a catepillar is a whole new beginning to the butterfly. By the way, did your Mother like to sing?
Farmgirl hug,
Patricia
Farmgirls do it organically! |
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FarmGirl~K
True Blue Farmgirl
512 Posts
Kelly
TX
USA
512 Posts |
Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 10:18:01 PM
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| Georgeanne... so sorry to hear about your loss. Thank you for sharing your story with us. God bless you & your family. We are here if you need us. |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 02:56:26 AM
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Patricia,
My mother wasn't really a singer. I can't remember ever hearing her sing. I sing though, not well, but I love to sing. I have a lullaby voice according to my friends and family. You know, a voice that only a baby would love? LOL I used the butterfly analogy with my daughters at mom's passing. It was so easy for them to understand that.
Thanks for the hug!!
Georgann
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
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DeeDee
True Blue Farmgirl
162 Posts
Denise
Wyoming
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Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 6:43:22 PM
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| Just wanted to add my condolences to everyone else's tonight. A beautiful story you told of your Mom making things right between her boys. |
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jendada
Farmgirl in Training
15 Posts
Jen
Ellendale
MN
USA
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Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 6:51:17 PM
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Blessings to your and your family Georgann! What a beautiful story of your mom's last hours. You will hold that memory with you forever.
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 10:30:03 PM
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Georgann,
Just checking in and sending a (((HUG))) to you. I am continueing to think of you and your family and pray for peace and your mom's last loving act to hold and wrap your family in love! What a wonderful gesture at the end of her life, it speaks volumes in regards to her life and love!! What a blessing to be part of such a deed and thank you so much for blessing us by sharing it! We all feel as if we have lost someone dear and wonderful. Do take care. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Remember we are all here for you!
Hugz & Prayers,
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
1940 Posts |
Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 10:50:13 PM
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Thanks for answering, Georgann. It's funny. I was thinking of your mother and I heard music. Anyway, she's doing fine. I had somebody go check.
Love,
Patricia
Farmgirls do it organically! |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Apr 15 2007 : 05:07:13 AM
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I was singing! I sang all of her favorite old hymns and childhood songs that I learned when she was my Brownie leader. I sang Amazing Grace, Old Rugged Cross, Shall We Gather by the River, And He Walks With Me, Three Little Angles....I tried to remember all of the ones that she loved and I sang until my throat was sore. I do hope she enjoyed them. Like I said, I have a lullaby voice!
Thankyou Patricia for checking on Mom. I felt in my heart and I know in my heart and mind that Mom is doing well. Your confirmation is a blessing and refreshment for my soul.
Georgann
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
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vintagegrl
True Blue Farmgirl
280 Posts
Jeanette
NH
USA
280 Posts |
Posted - Apr 15 2007 : 06:45:35 AM
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| Georgann, I just logged on for my every-4-day check up on the forum (PC's fried, using son's PC) and read the news of your beloved mother's passing. I was so touched and awed by what a mother's love can do. What an inspiration! My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. |
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
1940 Posts |
Posted - Apr 15 2007 : 11:54:58 AM
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Georgeanne - that explains it. Apparently, when looked for her, she had your singing wrapped around her like a cloak. That's why I heard it. Funny, when my Mom died, I sang to her ,too. I was the only one there (I have no sibs). I kept singing one song from the 30s that I can't remember now, rubbing her arms (gently, she was skin & bones), sponging her lips. A couple of days earlier, when she could speak but was already "out of it" she became agitated and called out for her Mama (we Italians seem to do that at the end) and I saw my Nonnie come and put her hand on Mom's shoulder. She said, "Josephina, whatsa matta? I'm here. I'm here." and my Mom put her hand over Nonnie's and calmed down. Mother's love, for sure.
Love,
P
PS Now she's sitting surrounded by tons of flowers and she has a big grin on her face. She sends love and thanks.
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Apr 16 2007 : 12:24:10 AM
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Oh, yes, I can just see her doing that. She loved flowers and the girls and I kept fresh flowers in her room at all times. We picked the daffodils and tulips. I cut the dogwood and apple blossoms. Dani picked the wild violets in the yard....we tried to bring the beauty of the creation into her view every day she was confined. She loved watching the squirrels and all of the lovely birds that were outside of her windows. The last day she was out of bed, she wanted to watch at the window. She just sat there and seemed like she was soaking each and ever detail in. She somehow knew it was her last time up and she was going to absorb every last detail. I'm so thankful for the squirrels. I've cussed them so long now, but they really did give mom something to laugh at during her last days.
Oh, the day after her death, I was standing at the kitchen window and sitting on a tree branch right outside was a big brown owl. He just sat there looking around and then flew away. I hear the owls all of the time, but that was the first time I ever saw one here!
Oh, and Patricia, thank you for sharing your mother's memory with me...what comfort to your mother that her dear mother came to her. It just made me realize that the most powerful motivator on this earth is not what I have thought all of these years. I have always thought that guilt and fear where the most powerful motivators, but I now know that it is a mother's LOVE!!!
Thank you again!
And thank you to all of my farmgirl friends. You really made the difficult times lighter by all of your prayers and support....I'll never forget it!!
Love and Blessings,
Georgann
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Apr 16 2007 : 1:38:48 PM
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| Georgeann, no platitude helps, so I won't even try to think of one, though I long to be of some comfort to you. How many of us can imagine the depth of devotion it's taken for you to care for your mother so well, for such a long time? You're a good person. And it occurs to me that although I didn't know your mother, never met her, don't even have a face to go with thoughts of her, I've got this much to remember her by: she gave the world you. For that alone, she must have been one fine woman, and I mourn that loss with you. |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Apr 16 2007 : 1:58:11 PM
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I am so very sorry for your loss, Georgeann. What a strong spirit she had. Thanks for posting that beautiful story about the triumph of that spirit.
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?" - 'Brother Dave' Gardner |
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Bluewrenn
True Blue Farmgirl
1122 Posts
Erin
Texas
USA
1122 Posts |
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Luzy
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Luanne
Pueblo
Colorado
USA
922 Posts |
Posted - Apr 16 2007 : 5:26:41 PM
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Here's a big giant hug for you Georgann! I wish I could give it to you in person, but just know that you are loved and hugged. My thoughts and for sure, prayers are with you. Take care of you. Lu
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MustangSuzie
True Blue Farmgirl
634 Posts
Sarah
New London
Missouri
USA
634 Posts |
Posted - Apr 16 2007 : 5:46:38 PM
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Sending you many hugs Georgann, you are such a blessed soul. It makes my heart joyfull to read of the celebration of your mother's life.
Blessings....
Sarah
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." -From The Great Law Of The Iroquois Confederacy.
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE!!!!
http://mustangsuzie.wordpress.com
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
1095 Posts
Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
1095 Posts |
Posted - Apr 17 2007 : 10:53:01 AM
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Dear Georgeann, thank you for sharing your precious story with us! What an uplifting end for your mother's life! The Lord is so very good to us. I pray you'll get rest soon, and be able to watch your brothers become close friends.
Love,
Ann
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Family Matters: Mom passed away this evening. |
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Mom passed away this evening.
