Update

Sunday morning at about 3:00 am my Dad called and told me that he had been sitting by my Grandpa and he had coughed a little and then stopped breathing and passed away. So I'm glad he died peacefully and my Dad was right there with him. My grandpa didn't want an obituary or a visitation. So tomorrow we are having a small burial service at the grave site in Pardeeville with just the immediate family there. Then on Saturday there will be a funeral mass at St. Peters Church. The past couple days I've been helping my Nana and Aunt Millie clean my Nana's house. We got the people to come and remove the hospital bed from the livingroom (which he never used) and the oxygen tanks from the dining room. And we went though the clothes he had on the dining room floor and threw away all the torn ratty ones and then I folded up the usable ones and we put them in bags for my Dad to go through. My grandpa has much more clothes upstairs and in the basement, but right now we are just cleaning the cluttered areas in the house so things look more normal for my Nana. My grandpa liked to keep... EVERYTHING, and so we found a million pill bottles filled with pennies and ended up taking 5 buckets of pennies to the bank; it added up to $155.60. My Nana needed that since they did not believe in Life Insurance. The thing I found most ironic is that my Grandpa didn't want an obituary, yet he read them everyday of his life and even saved the ones of people he knew. In a pile of coupons and miscellaneous notes by his bed we found the lyrics to "What a Wonderful World" that he had cut out of three separate newspapers, so we are playing it at his funeral mass. It was also one of my Dad's favorite songs and me and him danced to it at my wedding, not by choice. We just had the DJ pick a good father/daughter dance song. Today we also went to the flower shop and my Nana got a single red rose to put on his coffin, then we got 2 violet roses for my Aunt Millie and Dad to place, three pink roses for me , and my two cousins John and Charlie, and then Two white roses for Johns two children Adrianna and Evan to place on the coffin. Adrianna was the flower girl in my wedding. My Nana wants any flowers or money people wanted to send for the funeral to go to the Don and Marilyn Anderson Hospice Center instead. It is in Fitchburg Wisconsin. I'm glad my work gives me three days of Funeral time, Josh only gets one day at his work. So I'll be going back to work on Thursday which will be nice so things will seem a little more normal again. I think I'm handling my grandpa dying a lot better since he had been sick for so long, and we all knew it was coming. Where as when my Grandma died in 2003 it was kind of a shock because we knew she was sick and everything, (she had congestive heart failure and was having kidney dialysis treatments, as well as diabetes and complications from that since she was in her twenties), but we didn't think she was deathly ill. So I didn't handle her death as well. Anyways everyone in my family seems to be getting along fairly well and we know my Grandpa is much happier in heaven now.