On January 25, 2012 MamaRebecca passed away after a slow four month downhill course that started with a stroke, a fall, and a broken leg that never healed. Matt was on call and not able to go with me to the funeral. I looked into flying by myself, but the tickets were really expensive. I found out that all of my siblings would be there with their kids and mine would be the only grandkids absent. So with the help of Carlos, we drove with the kids to Arizona. We left San Antonio on Friday, the 27th of January and stayed the night at Grandma Mindy's house. The next morning we caravanned with everyone else up to Arizona. When we got in to Arizona, the girls (Cynthia, Katrina, Camille, and I) went to help out at Ruth's house arrange some pictures and flowers. My kids went with their uncles to the hotel to hang out. Later that night the kids went swimming in the hotel pool and we ate pizza.
On Sunday, January 29th we went to MamaRebecca's church building to attend an English Ward. It turned out to be our cousin Lisa's (Uncle Ed's daughter) ward. During the day we went to MamaRebecca's house, but we didn't have both keys to the locks so we took pictures as a family outside of her house.
The funeral was on Monday, January 30th (Madeline's birthday). Many people attended the beautiful services held that morning in her church building. Mariachi's bid her farewell at the graveside and the great grand kids showed their love by putting flowers on her casket. We left from the graveside to drive back to El Paso. Then drove on Tuesday to San Antonio.
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