Saying Goodbye to Memere

It is sad to say that within only 3 months of each other both of Johns Grandparents on his Fathers side passed away. Pepere passed away at the end of May while we were still living in MA.  We attended a beautiful service where John gave a wonderful tribute to his Pep.

Only 3 short months passed when his Memere took ill and passed away as well.  She did tell us that she didn't want to live long now that she was alone but we all just thought that was the sadness she had coming out from loosing her husband of almost 60 years.  We were very sad to hear the news of her illness and then her quick passing, now that we live in NJ it was a bit harder since we were not able to be this Johns family.

 They are both missed dearly and we have many found memories of time spent with them.

 We were happy to have the last 5 years of living so close and spending so much time together.  She taught Zach how to play checkers and that was one of their things to do together.

 We spent many hours sitting poolside with both Meme and Pepe while the kids swam. We love them and miss them but we know that we will see them again when the time comes.

 One good thing to come out was we got to spend time with Johns parents and brother since we hadn't seen them in a while.  John's dad made a tire swing at their house and the kids had a blast on it.

We had a sad reason for getting together but we were happy to have the time to spend with each other.