Bert, there are no words....I cannot imagine what your are feeling right now...you have my heartfelt sympathy, and my prayers.
Stacey Sent from Gator Goddess' iPhone On Jan 17, 2011, at 13:39, BertThePiggieMan <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, all... > > Thank you very much for your kind words and well wishes. It's > definitely been rough, but we all have an outstanding support system > of friends and family, such as y'all. We'll keep plugging along and > establish our new normal. > > Basically, she fell Monday while at home and she thought it was > because she was low in blood sugar since she wasn't feeling well the > night before and didn't have anything to eat. I came home from work to > help her up and when she got up on all fours then tried to lift up > onto the bed, she collapsed. She wasn't breathing then and never > recovered. :( She was 54 years old. Shoot, I'm 43 and had more gray > than her. What does that say about the marriage? :) > > The visitation and funeral were beautiful. Seating and standing room > accounted for 150 and they had to turn folks away. My younger son > counted 380 signatures in the guestbook for the visitation and > service. What an incredible testament to who she was. She worked for > the school district here in Springdale in their transportation > department and took care of the bus drivers there, especially by > fixing biscuits and gravy for 150 once a month. The drivers were a > wonderful portion of the people there to celebrate her life during the > funeral, and the procession to the cemetery even had a school bus > follow it, its reds running the whole way. How. Cool. Is. That? :) > > Thanks again for the well wishes. And if any of y'all want to connect > via Facebook or LinkedIn, I'm there as Bert Edens. I think there are > more than one of us (especially LinkedIn), so just look for the one > with the one with friends who have an affinity for large reptiles and > SEC football :) > > BTW, you can see my ugly mug and Jann's beautiful smile here: > > http://www.heritageofnwa.com/guestbook.html > > - PiggieBert > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
