On Saturday, February 8, 2025 we celebrated the life of my mom, Alice Wilson, who passed away peacefully on January 6, 2025. We live-streamed my eulogy on YouTube which you can watch by clicking this link. You can download a copy of the eulogy text linked below. Alice’s obituary can be found here.
We had two television screens showing photos of mom doing the activities she loved with the people that she loved. I’ll include the links to those slideshows here (a shorter slideshow and a longer slideshow) once I have them uploaded. In the meantime I’ve included them as collages here.
We had a colourful program that included a list of the activities we had planned for the day along with the photos that were featured in the shorter slideshow. The program also contained a word search puzzle that we created in her honour. I hope you’ll download a copy to do yourself. It can also be solved online on the website that we used to create the puzzle.
I finished created the version 2.0 of the word search puzzle, which includes the words that others added to the long list of words that come to our mind when we think of Alice. The link is below.
When I was speaking with Heidi, Stefan and Georgia after the Celebration of Life, they commented on how nice it had been to see so many people come together to celebrate Grandma’s life. I agreed; people are so nice. It is wonderful to be surrounded by friends and families as we navigate the bumpy road of living without a loved one. I told them about a National Public Radio (NPR) audio series called ‘This I Believe’. I listened to them many of them several years ago. And while I enjoyed them all, only two episodes stuck with me after all of these years. I’ve linked them below. They are both worth a listen. Always Go To The Funeral and Be Cool to the Pizza Dude. This I believe. I’d love to hear what you believe.
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