Grandma Bev

Last night I got the news that my sweet grandmother passed away. Since I use my blog as a journal I thought there would be no better place for me to share some of my thoughts and memories that I have of this dear woman. I spent most of the night last night wide awake thinking of her life and her legacy. If I had been there last night to say goodbye these may be some of the things I would have quietly spoken to her.

Dear Grandma Bev,

I wish I had been among the family surrounding you with love last night as you went back home. Please know that I feel it an honor to call you my grandmother. You were a strong example in my life and are part of the reason I am the woman I am today.

When I think of you many memories and feelings flood my mind. I thank you for passing your love of family history and genealogy work on to me. I have no doubt that you were greeted last night by many of your ancestors that you may have never met but you knew their stories and loved them. I now as well know them and love them.

You made your house a home. I always felt at home walking through your door. I remember as a child playing in your yard. I remember many family meals around your table by the piano. I remember LOVING cleaning your pink oven with brillo pads. I wish you were still here so I could ask you how you convinced a young child that cleaning an oven was a fun task.

I will always remember how you loved to feel pretty. Even as you aged it was still important for you and I love that. I will remember your hands, especially your beautiful nails that always looked so nice. I love that you loved getting your hair done and having your "face put on". You were a beautiful woman in many ways.

I will remember your smile. It lit up your face and made others around you want to smile.

I am so thankful that you were able to visit me in my home that I love so much. I am glad you were able to be within these 4 walls and experience some of the beauty I experience each day. I loved sitting around the fire with you singing with my mother and my daughter. That will be a night I always cherish.


I will remember your beautiful singing voice. I can hear the song too-ra-loo-ra-lo-ral being gently sung by you in my mind as I write. There was always something so comforting about your sweet voice singing that song.

I will remember that you were there at my baptism, the day I married my sweet husband, and the day we blessed our first child. You were there for so many of my life shaping events.

Most of all I am grateful that you were a strong and faithful woman in the gospel. I am thankful to know where you are. I am thankful to know that this is not goodbye, it is just see you in a little while. The world already feels a little more empty with you gone but I feel blessed to know you will be looking over our family.

Thank you for the amazing woman you were and the blessing you were in my life. I will miss you. Until we meet again!

Your Grandaughter,
Brook