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| MB, Val, Wanda & Liesl -- Sept. 2004 |
My mother has been gone for more than four years now. Today marks the fourth anniversary of her memorial service. She died on Sunday, January 21, 2007 in the early part of the day, long before the sun rose. Her long siege of being in the cloud of Alzheimer's ended before the sun rose on another Sunday. She died in the bedroom that she was born in on her home farm with family by her side.
We held a wonderful celebration of her life on the Saturday that followed. In a packed church sanctuary we remembered her as a woman full of life and love. People came for miles on that cold wintry Wisconsin day to surround our family as we said goodbye to Vallanee Rose Luedtke Hayes.
For those of us who loved her, it was the beginning of a new kind of missing her. Even now, four years later, I still can't quite describe the hole that her death left in my life. I just know that it is there.
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Amen Sister - the hole in the heart is ever so present. There are some times I just break down and cry, wishing so much that she was still here with us.
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