It is my 23rd Anniversary and my MIL just passed away ☹️

Thank you everyone for your kind words and your support. ❤️❤️❤️

Because everything moves so slowly in rural WV, we aren’t able to have the burial until 8/14. We will do a graveside service when we inter her ashes (she wanted to be cremated) and that will be it.

Sister-in-law and nephew (30 y.o.) are causing all sorts of headaches - death brings out the worst in family. Even though they live within a 2 miles of the nursing home where Carol was, SIL only visited twice a year and nephew visited ONCE in the 5 years she was in that facility (she was in Winchester for a couple of years before we were able to move her) and that was because his wife dragged him there. They now want a say in how things are being done and want us to reschedule the graveside service because the nephew has a commitment in PA that day. The hair pulling and teeth nashing over someone they shunned in the final years of her life when she was so helpless and dependent is mind bending. I feel awful for my husband who is bearing the brunt of this (and, as you can tell, am angry at them).

Carol was a wonderful woman. She was born and lived in WV her whole life, save a couple of years that they lived in Georgia. She was only 4’11”, but had a personality that would fill a 6’ tall body. She, before the Alzheimer’s, was witty and funny and irreverent. She could swear like a sailor, yet was also very loving. She worked at the WV Schools for the Deaf and Blind for over 35 years. I am dh’s second wife, and although she didn’t like his first wife, she always treated me as a daughter - I never felt unwelcome in her home. My only wish is that I had more years with her before the Alzheimer’s took much of her personality.

May her memory be for a blessing.