But if she lost them, then I can only hope that she lost, too, the bitter memories of wartime and the hard years of struggle afterwards. Eulogy for a Grandmother I'm not sure how you begin to talk about a life that spanned nearly a centurya woman whose time included half a dozen wars, The Great Depression, and 17 different presidents. Tagged as eulogy, Japanese Canadian internment, What a stunning and moving tribute to your grandmother. I expected the agonizing wait to continue. Beginners welcome. We can reduce our risk to a far greater degree than most Americans realize or act upon. She finally found peace after Alzheimers disease. But Grandma, who I never heard say shoganai, nevertheless lived shoganai, working hard to move on with her life and to leave the past behind. Grandma was pretty frail by then and I wasnt sure she even knew who I was. The disease made the last few years especially painful, but she lived to age 85 and led a full life. I cant remember a single time I was around her when she wasnt encouraging, exhorting, or urging me and others toward faith and obedience to Christ. Grandma never heard my dad preach a mediocre sermon; 3. Shed experienced a bad fall, and Id come to see her at the hospital. (You take the good, you take the bad.) When we got word en route that she had died, my husband had to keep assuring the kids that I was okay. It felt inappropriate to mourn Grandma Pauline, while she was still with us at least in the literal sense, but the spirit of her was so far away. |
I told my husband I feel like when I hold her hand, Im asking her to stay with me. For some reason, I knew that she would let go when no one was watching her; I felt she wanted it that way. That morning, however, my grandfather regained full consciousness. It's far more personal. She loved nice shoes and clothes and was always well turned out. But I didnt ask, and she couldnt really answer anyway. It's something I wasn't able to do for my mother. Your father touched my soul like no one ever has. Keep being Mommy. I slept well that night for the firsttimesince the hospice nurse had told us the end was near. She had a sense of the ridiculous and was always ready to laugh over anything silly. You Are Only as Good as the People You Surround Yourself With, By Jamie Kolnick in My Loss, Personal Essays. I am so sorry for your loss but what a moving memorial for her life. So I go after dementia the way it went after my mother -- relentlessly, clinically, unrepentantly. And I can attest that one of the last memories my mother shared with me consisted of her as a child, sledding down a hill, excited to reach her mothers outstretched arms at the bottom. We honored my mother, Dixie Benton Stucky (1953-2013), on Saturday, June 29, 2013.We hosted a memorial service at Western Hills Church of Christ in Austin, Texas. m_gallery_title = "Dementia cruelly, methodically took my mother\'s life"; Nicknames For Harley Girl, After being at the nursing home, watching and waiting, that Tuesday through Thursday, I stayed home all day Friday. They had to start from scratch; my mother remembers a cabin with dirt floors. You should write more about her. They say that ones deep childhood memories are the last to leave a brain invaded by Alzheimers, in part because they are literally embodied in ones skin and bones. I remember staring at the casket spray, made by my amazing friend Terri, through much of the memorial service. March 22, 2012December 11, 2012. Two Pleasers In A Relationship, The loss of my Grandad a few years ago hit me harder that I expected, I wasnt able to read anything at the funeral. I write my mother's eulogy every single week. During the night on the 23rd of December she suffered a stroke that left her non-responsive on the 24th, and that afternoon she died. But to me, that was a great picture of who Grandma actually was. Saying goodbye to my mother. Grandmas faith was never religious, dutiful, or pious. I recently lost my mother to Alzheimers. Tras la muerte de mi mam, encontr un nuevo significado en mi color favorito de siempre. I was devastated, but also relieved for the permission to mourn what I had lost so many years earlier. My grief for her really for myself is making me so tired. I put everything I could into the eulogy and really hoped to convey a sense of her life and character. She taught me how to wash rice for cooking; she told me that every grain lost was a day lost from my life! [], [] That night, a great peace washed over me. But I know now. Individually, people suffered immensely. It was during that drive that I filled pages with notes about my childhood memories of her. Her usual way of greeting me these past few years has been to look at Harold and say, Well, look at this handsome young man is he one of us? That morning after church, Grandma looked at me and said, You keep preaching the word, young man. Im still not sure if she knew who I was but she knew who Jesus was, and she recognized his Word when she heard it. Ive been in a bit of a shocked state because I think I believed she was eternal, even though she was 94 and getting frailer each time I saw her. I believe that I enjoyed a tenderness from her that her own daughters perhaps did not get; she was dedicated to protecting them, and her war experiences made her fierce in her protectiveness. I was expecting to choose hospice care for my grandfather when we met with the hospital staff last Thursday. She was an expert in Japanese flower arranging and traveled with a bolt cutter and hatchet which she used to glean good specimens for her arrangements. After some debate, my family elected me to compose and deliver the eulogy. May her soul rest in peace Amen. As a young woman, she came to Vancouver, to attend sewing school. Grandma and Grandpa set up a corner store in east Vancouver, which they kept open long hours. what do restaurateurs do when they're not working? I have tears in my eyes, though I never met her. She had been a resident at our home on Westbourne Road since 2015. Heres what I mean: dementia reveals the true essence of a person. What a lifetime your grandmother had youve captured it so well, describing the wartime and subsequent hardships, but focusing on the gifts she passed on to you and your family. 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When the funeral finally arrived, I felt like it was for everyone else. We are so happy with his improvement, despite his spinal injury. Two years ago, Harold and Pat came to my church for the first time ever. I just read the eulogy. When I launched this column, I promised myself that once a year, on the anniversary of her death, I would devote the column to her memory. Cheerfulness. And many of us here today are the fruit of those prayers. Very moving. That is how we will always remember her. I remember crying as I sat next to her, holding her hand. One of which was Margaret Mavis Harpley, 85, who had been suffering with Alzheimers Disease for a number of years. Dementia stole my grandmother long ago, leaving me to mourn her all over again when she died years later. She kept ikura, which is salmon roe, in Imperial margarine tubs and made me special meals. Clara Sent from my iPhone. Grandma was born in 1919, in Steveston. When I tell people that Grandma Pauline died last year at the age 96, the response is almost always some permutation of You were blessed to have her for so long. That is true in the technical sense. I hated watching her unconscious, struggling to breathe and seeing her body succumb a little more each day to dehydration. Candid conversation about grief. My years of worry, tears, and constant attachment to my cell phone, expecting calls from nurses in the middle of the night, were over. I was finally ready for her to go. [], [] One year ago, onthe day before Mothers Day, my mother and I looked into each others eyes for the very last time. : A Preschoolers Guide to Losing a Loved One, Keep Me In Your Heart: A Fathers Day Wish, My mother found peace after Alzheimers disease, Slow Motion: The Alzheimers Grieving Process, Memorial Service Packet Insert Page Dixie Stucky, Knesek Funeral Home Obituary and Guestbook. I wish I had known to write down the details of her life while she was still sharing them during those sleepovers and lunches. I finally found peace after Alzheimers disease. But this is my news, and my eulogy for my Grandma. I can see so much of your mom and dad in you and that is superb. I mean the good kind a sanctified pride in her family. 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I think that it would have been easy to sink into depression after the internment, or to be consumed with resentment and bitterness. I try to remember that inspirational lesson as I parent my own children. Tags: Dementia, Grandparent Loss, It's Complicated I believe that if the information is readily available, and consistently reinforced, it's possible to get through to people and to change behavior. He is writing a memoir on gender and parenting. For those of you who dont know me, my given name is Robert Harold Thune or Bobby, as my grandmother called me for my entire life. I think it was a chapter of her life that she wanted to forget and erase as much as possible. I would even say theres such a thing as nave optimism. Thank you for reading the post. We held the funeral yesterday and I gave the eulogy. But as long as Mom could still lift a hand, she would lift it in kindness to someone else.". Grandma was an expert seamstress and sewed clothing for her family. Lauren Flake is a wife, girl mom, native Austinite, seventh generation Texan, artist, author, and Alzheimer's daughter. What a life she had and what a blessing she was to you and you to her. []. [NBC News], We Cant Comprehend This Much Sorrow [NY Times], The Familial Language of Black Grief [The Atlantic]. Theres no filter. She had a fall on the 20th of December that fractured her pelvis and back, and she was in hospital. Grandma never heard my dad preach a mediocre sermon; she never watched a ball game in which her kids or grandkids werent the most valuable player; and she never understood why John didnt get 100% of the vote in every election. And in her later years, when the more complex aspects of her personality had faded, her joyful faith in Jesus remained. My most emotional moment was holding my phone up to her ear so my grandfather could say goodbye to his only child. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)? I hope we always remember her strength and fortitude, her love of beauty and her keen aesthetic sense, her kindness and love for her family. When I logged onto Zoom to lead a session on friendship, my true love was waiting in the grid. Cheerfulness. I was looking for details I could use for the eulogy Id need to deliver two days later, but I also wanted to melt the feelings about her Id frozen since shed started becoming a different person. Filed Under: death, growing up, memories Tagged With: Aging, Alzheimer's, life lessons. Seattle & Leeds. Now go home and take care of your babies. My grandmother spent one winter living on potatoes, taking shelter in a tent. She entered hospice care when I was pregnant with my first daughter and passed away, almost two years later, when I was pregnant with my second daughter. Thank you so much Pastor Bob. It was vibrant and living and worshipful. By some miracle, this visit included an unusual bright spot of lucidity. We are still grieving, but also returning to good memories for comfort. From Lillooet she moved with her family to Kamloops, where she met my grandfather, and they married in 1944. Thank you. How lovely that you had such a long relationship with her and she was able to pass on so much of herself to other generations. She had developed a tendency to remember and talk in loops of repeating information, but we were kind of on the same track. I was the eldest, born at least 7 years before the next grandchild, so I commanded her attention, plus she was a fairly young grandmother with lots of energy for a young child. But Im fairly sure Grandma Pat would disagree. After all, she and her community had been unfairly victimized for nothing more than their ethnicity. My aunt Judy was born in Kamloops, my mother in Revelstoke, and my aunt Esther in Vernon, and the family made its way back to Vancouver in 1950, when the Canadian government allowed Japanese Canadians back to the coast, four years after the end of the war. Share on Pinterest. We thought that the trip would provide a nice diversion for all of [], [] itshard to watch friends lose their moms (and dads) much too young, I know from my own experience that, eventually, they will come out the other side, stronger and wiser, even though that ache [], [] This will be my eighth Mothers Day since my mother died. This Grandsons Eulogy for His Grandmother Will Touch Your Heart and Make You Long for Yours. There was no high school in Deep Bay, so Grandma finished school at 13 and began to help her family on the fishing boat, in the cannery, and also working berry picking and farming. No more suffering, no more pain, no more Alzheimers disease. He told me later that he told her we would all be okay. It has been a difficult summer for my grandparents. By the time my sister Erin and our cousins Christa and Michael came along, she was older and had suffered the loss of my gentle grandfather, Hideo Sugiyama. Then we held a graveside service later that day at Sealy Cemetery in Sealy, Texas. They said their final goodbye to their only child after watching her struggle with Alzheimers disease for more than 10 years. By Bob Thune
A lot of the Japanese culture that I retain, as a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian, came from her. And am thinking of how to write my eulogy too. In a way, I'm still writing it. Find NJ.com on Facebook. My grandmother was shaped by her historical context. She showed me patience. It was about the kind of person you were and the difference you made in the lives of others. She grew up in Deep Bay, on Vancouver Island, where her father was a fisherman, ranging as far as the Alaskan Panhandle on his small boat. In Grandmas case, this was Lillooet. We visited her in hospital and I showed her pictures of my familys trip there in October and she reminisced about her last trip. You Might Have the Better Claim But I Have the Bigger Army. [], [] didnt really get to know Karen until after my mom passed in June 2013. She was always and forever an influencer. A friend of my mothers for 40 years, Stuart Platt, delivered my mothers eulogy at her funeral and also spoke at her graveside service. I know how concerned people are about these matters because I hear from them every week. Thank you for your kind thoughts, I appreciate them. Mothers Day is a difficult time for my grandma and myself, since losing my mom to early onset Alzheimers disease four years ago. The grieving process is a long one, and never truly over, but hope your memories are helping to ease the sadness. Again, a sensory memory of security became the most indelible legacy of a loving parent. Music played an important role in my journey through my mothers illness. I had no idea the next time I saw you, you would be unconscious on your deathbed. Then we held a graveside service later that day at Sealy Cemetery in Sealy, Texas. From what you said, shes more like my grand ma. Shed probably forgotten how shed give me a manicure and wed go through old photo albums or watch Saturday Night Live. And didnt seem to remember our countless lunches at Neiman Marcus, where shed insist I use every last bit of strawberry butter for the popovers while also lecturing me not to pick out such dainty jewelry. But then, in January, my parents called with news that she had contracted pneumonia. My 83-year-old mother has dementia. Ive edited it a bit because I wrote it to read out: My grandmother, Susan Sugiyama, was a woman I would like to honor today with my memories of her. He remarked at her graveside that how we live now, going forward, is part of her legacy. I hope I can be kinda like her when I grow up. Everyone told her that it was okay for her to go home but her stubborn little body just kept fighting. We were all saddened by her departure, yet relieved that she would not suffer. I didnt know I would say goodbye to my mother eight days after I wrote Keep Me In Your Heart: A Fathers Day Wish. The Riparian Times is a boutique publication with musings about life, travel, fashion and art. Growing up as a kid with that kind of a grandmother had a way of bestowing confidence, self-worth, and a sense of rootedness. All rights reserved. After grandpa died, Grandma began to travel and explore the world. We had a very different Christmas this year and I havent been able to post anything, despite having read many books. So to me, she was an indulgent and fond grandmother. I wanted to know what it was to lose her husband in such a shocking, dramatic way and how she was able to rebuild her life. The reason is that my mothers mother, my Grandma Sugiyama, passed away on Christmas Eve. In the last few years of Grandma Paulines life, my older two kids, around 6 and 8 at the time, were confused about why we had to make time to see her. 'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Privacy Policy Terms of Service RSS Feed Contact Us Donate, 2013-2022 Modern LossTM, LLC. Well, she lived 94 years so you know Grandma didnt waste rice. She fixed my hair with gentle hands. Read more about Lauren. She knew my face and my name, and she knew that we had always been close, but I suspected that my grandmother no longer remembered what made us close like the many Saturday night sleepovers from my childhood, when wed go to one of her few pre-approved restaurants. I cant say for sure what her memory and consciousness were allowing her to experience, but Id like to think that we made one last connection before she left us. She was delicate and wild., Memorial Service Packet Dixie StuckyMemorial Service Packet Insert Page Dixie StuckyKnesek Funeral Home Obituary and Guestbook. When my grandmother died two weeks ago, I was asked to share a short eulogy at the memorial service. We hosted a memorial service at Western Hills Church of Christ in Austin, Texas. [], [] After awaiting your passing and the end of your suffering for so long, I had no idea I would miss visiting you so much, even though you couldnt respond to me. In many ways the community was destroyed; we dispersed to all parts of Canada, many reluctant to return to the coast where they felt betrayed by their neighbours. While you are, subscribe to our spam-free newsletter. Beauty wordings and a few random tangents! Jet Diver Vs Dipsy Diver, Ironically, it seems fitting that such body memories ended up dominating a eulogy for someone who died of Alzheimers disease. We honored my mother, Dixie Benton Stucky (1953-2013), on Saturday, June 29, 2013. One of her lungs had failed and she was no longer conscious. The other 80 percent of preventing Alzheimer's is well within our control, based on how well we eat, how often we exercise, how much stimulation we give our mind and how socially active and spiritually replenished we keep ourselves. The Japanese expression shoganai means something like it cant be helped; its a verbal shrug and is often invoked to describe a traditional resignation and acceptance of fate, an attitude in Japanese culture which allowed them to move on with their lives. The good memories, the meaningful memories that we have of Pat are of her younger, more vivacious years. This hits me close to home as my own grandmother recently passed away after suffering with dementia for a decade or so. I will always remember how you prompted me to seek out help when I was grieving, and I would be happy to be there for you too, if that is what you need (now or in the future). She also boiled shiitake mushrooms which doesnt smell good to kids and to this day I cant eat shiitake. 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