Posted on 09/04/2021 4:58:00 AM PDT by usconservative
Praise Almighty God! Aunt Vera's journey home has ended, she is with our Lord!
She was a woman of great faith, strength, perseverance, grace and dignity. She was one of seven children, born here of immigrant parents.
She battled cancer as a young woman and survived what we would consider by today's standards, rather crude treatment for it. The result was she could not bear children so instead, she became the aunt and great aunt to dozens of nieces and nephews. The joy in her eyes while around children was so evident to see in all the pictures that will be so very proudly displayed at her upcoming wake and funeral.
I've known Aunt Vera since I started dating my GF just over three years ago. Her faith, dignity and grace were evident and she will forever have a place in my heart.
I will never forget the day I met her. GF and I went to pick her up from her home in an independent living facility. At 99 going on 100, she still lived alone, took good care of herself, walked (with some mild assistance) and was fully aware of the world around her, as she was until she passed. We took her back to my GF's home where family was waiting for her and we celebrated Thanksgiving Day together, a very large group of us. As my GF did the majority of the work getting her home prepared for the family event, I did all the cooking for the meal.
As we spoke with my GF sitting by her side and I sitting across from her after our Thanksgiving meal,she asked me point blank: "you're divorced?" I replied yes. She then asked: "and you cook?" I again replied yes. As she had watched me in the kitchen as I finished preparations for our meal, and called everyone when it was time to eat, she looked at my GF and said to her "he's a keeper." She then raised her cane up so I could see it and said "if you ever mistreat my favorite niece, you will answer to me." Then she smiled and gave her blessing to my GF for our relationship.
As we moved her into fully assisted living shortly before her 102nd birthday we saw her health starting to fail. She was in stage four renal failure for about a year. Aunt Vera was fully informed of that and she made a decision that no exceptional measures would be taken to save her life. Family and extended family rallied around her the past year even through the China virus to ensure she was well taken care of and constantly visited so she knew she was so very loved.
This is what good and faithful families do.
I consider it an honor and a blessing from our Lord that I was able to know her even for this short time. Through it all she had this remarkable strength, faith, grace and dignity and was and continues to be such an important figure and example to her family, extended family, and all who knew her.
Praise God! Aunt Vera is home with our Lord.
Amazing woman.
Thanks to all.
Praise God! Aunt Vera is home.
Yes, she was. Thank you.
The correct posture, well done..
What a beautiful eulogy! I am glad you were able to meet this lovely woman. She sounds like the type of person you will carry in your heart forever. (((Hugs))) Mom
I appreciate your testimony to your gf’s Aunt Vera. It’s great she had all her faculties as of July 31.
My mom, on the other hand, communicates in word salad, is declining rapidly, is incontinent, and is not lucid at least 1/2 of the time. She is in assisted living. She is 86.
I am on watch duty, as I am the Elder Brother who lives within 5 miles of her.
I am glad you did not endure that.
Your brother from another mother. ‘Pod
A blessing to all, I’m sure she was!
May God hold you all. Celebrate her Luke well!
Of course prayers for your extended family and you to help you through all this.
It is never a burden to ask for and receive prayers.
Pinging the keeper of the prayer warrior list.
Bless you
“The correct posture, well done”
Amen to that!
Amen! What a blessing all around!
My husband has a great aunt who is 106. She is completely deaf, but that is about all that is wrong with her. She still had dark hair last I saw her a few years ago.
Caring and kind words, even those we read about from total strangers, give hope for a world that seems lost when listening to main stream media.
Thanks, and may God bless you and yours...
Thanks for sharing such a fine tribute with us.
What a lovely testimony. My condolences Vera’s family and to you.
Prayer being offered for Aunt Vera’s family. A remarkable woman. Bless her.
A loss to mankind. May she forever rest in peace.
I hope you have support from family and friends, what you're going through is not easy and you'll need others to lean on and help prop you up when you need it. Having been where you are, it's physically, mentally and spiritually draining. I pray you have support.
May she rest in peace. Condolences to you and your girlfriend’s family.
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