Final Passage

Today my family said our final good-byes to Grandma Sawatzky here in Newton, Kansas.  We gathered at the gravesite out on the windy prairie to place her at rest next to her beloved husband before celebrating her life at First Mennonite Church.  My mother read her life story, my sister shared her remembrances, I played Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring on the violin with my second cousin accompanying on the piano.  The church bells tolled 96 times at the end of the service to commemorate her 96 years of life.

My sister has blogged about the passage of both of our grandmas at her site here.