Beautiful Service

Jennifer's Service yesterday was beautiful. Thanks to a lot of different folks pitching in and helping with everything. So yet again I was again blessed and thankful.

We started the day with a nice breakfast at the house. We had Jimmy Eggs and a sausage/egg casserole, fruit and coffee. Then we relaxed and BS'd for a bit and then loaded up vehicles with all the stuff and headed up to the Pioneer center.

Thanks to my Rotary Family and members of my family and friends we got the place set up, food situated and decorated in very quick fashion. Then folks started rolling in and I was totally blown away by how many folks showed up. It was just amazing! Just as we were about to start the service my brother-in-law Chad leaned over and asked me. "Do you know all of these people" to which I replied "Yes". He said "Wow that is amazing that you know this many people in just the short time that you have been here". I said yes it was and it once again hit me how important "Community" is at times like these.

Our good friend Dale Malody led the service. We said the Hail Mary and then Dale shared some words about Jennifer. There was a large part of the room that had not met Jennifer or had only briefly met her. Dale did a phenomenal job in introducing her to the room and the PowerPoint was rolling with the photos of Jennifer through out her life. It truly was a celebration of life.

Below is a photo of the table with Jennifer and beautiful flowers our friends Kelly & Greg Dykes had sent

Then we enjoyed the food and most importantly (at least it would have been to Jennifer) cake.

People seemed to be enjoying each other's company (which is what I wanted) and then another group of friends and family jumped in and helped clean up the room in nothing flat.

What a Community. Jennifer would have been very happy!

Thank you to those of you who are reading and who were present at the celebration. I greatly appreciate you being there and love you all.