All I can say is wow. I am glad she got to say good bye. Of course you are in our prayers
Joyce M Westphal <[email protected]> wrote: >Prayers indeed! I am hoping Ashley's supervisor has a change of heart..and >fast. Joyce > > > >On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Chuck Alexander ><[email protected]> wrote: > >Folks: We just had kinda, sorta death in the family this Tuesday night/Wed >morning about 12:30am. And check out this story. My son has been dating and >engaged to this girl Ashley for about a year and a half now and he she lives >with her grand parents, and my son lives there with them as well. Well, they >kept talking about “Papa Fred this, Papa Fred that”. And Nana this, and Nana >that. Well, My son one day asked me if I knew Fred Dempsey, and I said, “Only >for 35 yrs now”. He said “THAT’S “Papa Fred”. Fred and his brother Bruce (who >just lost his wife to cancer less than three months ago) owned a garage and I >was their main mechanic (that was when plugs, points, condenser and rotor and >you were “on the road again” most times. > > > >Anyway, Billie and I started going over there and seeing Fred and his wife >since I found out who it was, and anyway, all my son’s grand parents on mine >and my wife’s side died before he was just a few yrs old, so “Nana” (and Fred) >have been like grand parents to him and when she died this week (from >Parkinson’s complications” it has been devastating for him and his fiancé’ as >well as Fred. Her funeral will be this Saturday at 2pm. Took so long as “Nana” >has a grandson in the military stationed in Hawaii and Friday is the soonest >he can make it home. Hawaii is getting a whale of a hurricane and he said they >were moving GI’s to different bases in California etc till the storm passes, >so he’d be kinda headed this way even if his grand mother had not passed away. > > > >To top it all off, Fred and Bruce’s oldest brother’s wife just died less than >a yr ago, as did their only Sister. It’s been a rough family for the Dempsey >family this yr so even though ya’ll don’t know them, please keep them in your >thoughts and prayers. One last thing. Ashley is working at the local nursing >home as a Nurse (The lady who died was also a nurse for 30 yrs, so that’s why >Ashley wanted to become a nurse) on a 4pm till midnight shift, and they had >called the hospice ppl in on Tuesday after Ashley had gone to work and they >said they didn’t think she’d make it through the night and to “call in the >family”. Well Ashley hasn’t been working there long and is still on probation, >so her supervisor (old bitty) told her she HAD to finish out her shift. Ashley >worked her shift, then flew home real fast. Her Nana had stopped breathing >just 30 SECONDS before Ashley got home. Basically, she had died. Ashley went >in to see her, and her Nana opened her eyes for about 10-20 seconds, smiled, >then passed away for good after that. > > > >Now how do you account for that other than God allowing Ashley to say good bye >to her beloved Grand mother, who raised her. The nursing home didn’t even want >Ashley to miss any work on Saturday, which is the day of the fumeral, but she >told them to “kiss her hiney”, and I told her “good for you, and if that’s how >they treat their workers you need to go to work at the hospital which is >ajacent to the nursing home here. She said that’s just what’s she’s going to >check about. She has to jump through a lot of hoops as she is in a local >college to become and LPN (and hopefully an RN), and that job is part of her >“OJT” agreement with the school and the nursing home. Thanks a lot. I didn’t >mean to write a book. 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