The Burial

Today Meg, Cam, Doug and I headed to DeKalb for Jeanette's burial service.  We met first at Womack photography.  Carl had found a watercolor canvas that Jeanette had painted and wanted us to pick out the size of the reproduction we wanted for our home.  The first was a flower arrangement.  It was nice and we picked out a size for it.  The second, however, was my favorite - a blue painting that looked like an ice storm according to Cameron.  We plan to get that one as well.

Once we finished that meeting we all went to the Hillside for a traditional German lunch.  Addie recommended the chocolate cake, so we split a couple of pieces of that.  It was delicious.  We had time before the service to check out the DeKalb confectionery.  We each picked out several of our favorite candies.

The  burial service was at the St. Mary's cemetery.  It was small, only our family, Dan's, Kim's parents, Maury and Emie and Carl.  It was a nice service albeit short.  Doug, Meg and Cam all got a chance to fill the grave with the Earth.  My favorite part was when Carl took charge of the wheelbarrow making sure all of the dirt was put in just so.

Cam and Meg were pretty sad after the service, so we thought we would go to one of Jeanette's favorite spots - Inboden's.  They each picked out fruits and foods that they like.  Cam scored big when he found a type of candy that he saw in his puzzle - Turkish Taffy, banana flavor.  On the way back we stopped at Buffalo Wild Wings in South Bend and then did some quick shopping at Barnes & Noble, Dick's and Target.  It helped break up the trip.

Meg and Cam said that today made them sad.  They realized just how much they miss Grandma Heinisch.  They were glad, however, to have taken part in the service.