The best obituary, ever.

I read this great obituary yesterday.  I don't typically read obituaries for sport, but sometimes when I'm looking through my Wednesday paper, if I happen to turn to the obits, I'll see if I can find a good one.  Yesterday I found gold.  I found the type of obituary I think anyone, especially me, would want written about them.  Please indulge me.  In part it said:

"....a kind and gracious woman, died.  She was a mother, wife, daughter, sister and aunt.  She had more friends than we knew.  Perhaps in her fondest role, she was a grandmother to 8.  She bought crazy socks at Christmas for her grandchildren, some with bells and individual toes.  She held a Camp Grandma at Mormon Lake every summer.  And she was fun.  She kayaked and zip-lined; at Disneyland she rode the teacups and even roller coasters, though she disliked them. She took the kids to movies and always bought popcorn.  She cheered at their baseball and soccer games, swim meets and ballet recitals.  She would read the same book to a grandchild over and over, for as long as that grandchild deemed necessary.....


And cards.  She was always writing notes and delivering flowers to someone who needed a friend.  She loved meeting new people.  She loved her book club and hosting friends for dinner on her patio.  Her guacamole was legend.  She like traveling, skiing, camping and hiking.  She skied in the Swiss Alps and hiked the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim.  She went scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef and walked on a glacier in Alaska.  She saw a bear.....


When her daughters were young, she sewed doll clothes and then matching Christmas dresses, and finally prom dresses.  Later, she sewed Halloween costumes, including a vinyl Evil Knievel suit that is still the talk of at least one neighborhood....Her Easter egg hunts were the best, and the birthday cakes she made were always special.  She kept her Christmas tree up through January.  Every year....


She was a nurse for many years...She loved her job, her patients, who became friends, and her co-workers.  And then she found out she loved retirement even more.  Nobody was surprised.  


She was loved.


Please bring a flower from your yard, or someone else's - she would love it."

See, great obit, right?!  I wish I had known this woman.  I know I would have liked her!  That is what you call living.  Even though she's gone, her family, friends and co-workers will keep her memory living for the rest of their lives.  What lucky grandchildren too.