What do you remember about the death of your parents and your thoughts and feelings at the time?
Dad had his first stroke while Marie and I were watching a movie called Windwalker. I remember thinking how hard it was to be with him and see him in his deteriorating state the nest three month. I was relieved when he was finally able to pass away and couldn’t cry because I knew he was in a far better place. I have cried plentyof times since then however as I have missed having him at events in my childrens life.
Mom passed away sometime during the night. I was called out of a woodbadge staff meeting in Ephraim and given the news. I was so glad that Marie and I had been able to spend several weeks with her over the last few years as we would go to Duchesne for a week to photograph in Al’s Foodtown. We enjoyed being there in the evenings with her and I have many times wished I had taken the time to go visit them when the children were younger. We seemed get out there only about once a year and now that I have grandchildren I realize how much my parents would have loved to see them more often.
