In article >,
"W. Baker" > wrote:

> it went pretty well today, but still the thougt that we were
> leaving him, once agian there and not comign home together got the tears
> started. My son led a lovely service that he created searching for
> psaalms that mentioned music, trumpets, shofars. etc and made a nice
> speech. y younger son made a short speech adn I had everyone sind"You are
> my Sunshine," which Syd and I had sung together every day that he was home
> in hospice care, including his last morning. I also sang Franz Schubert's
> soong, Wanderer's Nachtleid about a man returning home as darknes cones in
> and the world quietens down who know he will soon be home. It is one of
> the few of these wonderful songs that I still can singdecently, what wiht
> age narrowing my range adn lowering my voice and the loss of fflexibility
> that comes from disuse. Jo let it close the service except for one long
> single not that he played on a shofar.
> Wendy- kind of sad, but glad to see that the stone an grave are looking
> as they should .

That sounds like it was a beautiful service, Wendy! And appropriate in
many ways.

Priscilla
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