Thursday, February 25, 2010
PLEASE PRAY...
...for my cousin Marie Lynn who passed away a few days ago and whom I mistakenly called Marylynn in a previous post. We never used her name, because she used a nickname always, always, always. Thanks be to God that Marie Lynn rests in peace and will rise in glory. She had many troubles in her life, including a painful last illness, but she nearly always had a smile on her face. I'm sure she's smiling now that she is released from her suffering. Pray for Marie Lynn's two sons, her sister, her daughter-in-law, her two grandchildren, and all who love her. I'm off to her funeral in New Orleans now.
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I am so sorry for your loss, prayers for her that she is in the arms of God.
ReplyDeletePrayers for your cousin Marie Lynn, Mimi, and may her soul be at peace and with God.
ReplyDeleteWill do.
ReplyDeletePrayers for all
ReplyDeleteMay she rest in peace and rise in glory.
ReplyDeleteAnd may the Comforter, come to all her family.
jimB
Prayers for peace and comfort for your cousin, Marie-Lynn, for you, and for her family.
ReplyDeleteWas the funeral OK, Mimi? Are you & Grandpere allright? ... I just thought I'd ask.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for the prayers. I prayed, too, but I confess that I never made it to the funeral. I made it to the cemetery complex, but I could not find the chapel where Marie Lynn's funeral was to be. I went down streets that turned out to be cul-de-sacs trying to get to the street where the chapel was located, and then finally, it was too late to try to make the mass.
ReplyDeleteI desperately needed to use a rest room, so I stopped at Langenstein's, the market that still bakes REAL New Orleans French bread the proper way, and had a delicious Caesar shrimp and pasta salad after I used their potty and bought a loaf of French bread to take home.
I had no cell phone numbers with me, so I couldn't call anyone. After lunch, I went down the street where Marie Lynn's sister lives, thinking that the family may be gathered there, but it was probably still too early, since there was a graveside ceremony, too. Anyway, I had not been to the sister's house for so long, I was not even sure which house was hers. I'll make calls soon to let the family know why I wasn't there.
The upshot of all this is that we're buying a GPS. I am hopeless at finding my way, if I don't already know where I'm going. Tom is just as bad, so we are really handicapped. The two of us together do not make one decent direction-finder.
One thing that I'm grateful for is that Tom was not with me, because he would have been bitching and moaning, and I would have had to listen to him along with being frustrated already.
Oh dear, sounds very frustrating. I bought a Sat Nav recently and it has totally saved my sanity. I wish I'd bought one years ago. At least you got a good lunch Mimi!!
ReplyDeleteSorry for your loss and that you were not able to attend the funeral. Pray that all will understand. Prayers for you and the rest of the family
ReplyDeleteOh Dear Grandmere! (We just bought a GPS --it's a Godsend. Except you know who doesn't read instructions....)
ReplyDeleteI will remember Marie Lynn at the altar Sunday.
Thanks, Rudo. I just got off the phone with Marie Lynn's only sister. When I told her where I was in New Orleans, she said, "You were right there!" I told her that I could see the cemetery, but I was on a cul-de-sac and didn't know how to get there. We're going to have a cousins lunch soon. Only 8 out of my maternal grandmother's 16 grandchildren are left.
ReplyDeleteCathy, my lunch was yummy, and we have a whole loaf of REAL French bread.
Margaret, thank you. Pray for her sister Carolyn, too. She will miss her Marie Lynn greatly.
May flights of angers sing her to her rest.
ReplyDeleteSorry for your loss of Marie Lynn and your not being able to find the funeral.
ReplyDeleteDo invest in in the GPS. Sarah and I bought one after our vacation this summer. After getting desperately lost in Boston, I told Sarah our options were to buy a GPS or take "old people" tours. The GPS has saved a few arguments.
Paul, thanks. I know and Marie Lynn knows that you meant angels.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Two Auntees. I'm laughing about the "old people" tours. We're getting the GPS.
Prayers and good thoughts for your cousing Mary Lynn and for yourself and Grand'père!
ReplyDeleteGöran, thank you.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry for your loss, G'mere,and for the directional fiasco. I do recommend a good GPS, I'd be lost (literally) without mine. Me assured of my prayers and my love. Lindy
ReplyDeleteLindy, thanks. Directional fiasco it was. I've got to do something. Now if I had a driver like some people I know....
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