following up...

[jennlk]

Mum just called. AC died around 10 am this morning. Mum sounds more relieved than anything. AC had been sleeping for the last couple of days -- friends say that she seemed to be moving her (closed) eyes intentionally yesterday as they chatted with each other/reminisced, but she never really woke up. LilSis came down last week to help Mum start sorting the FL house, and left for her home in AK around noon today - as scheduled. Mum told her that there was no reason for her to stay in FL, now that the waiting is over.

LilSis and Mum had spent much of the week doing initial triage on stuff in the FL house -- there's a certain level of stuff that just "goes away", either to the trash (old clothes) or a donation center (kitchen supplies, clean bedding, furniture, non-perishable food). Mum says that she really doesn't see any need for J and/or I to come to FL right now. *She's* going home to NC for a couple of weeks to recover/recuperate/grieve; and will then go back to FL for more sorting, and she may call us at that point. The house is in very good condition, and it does not seem as though it will take very long to sell once the contents are sorted.

It turns out that the NC house is going to friends of AC's who really like it, so it will not be our (family) responsibility after mid-May. Currently, the plan is to bury AC's ashes under a new tree in the yard at the NC house. I expect that we'll go down to NC for that....

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[minnehaha]

Not sure why AC was, but there's that loss. It seems death is close on our heels, just now.

K.

[jennlk]

AC is my Aunt Connie -- she's my mother's older sister. She was 94 when she died, and was reasonably healthy until about 6 months ago; and was mentally sharp until a few weeks ago. She lived alone in her house in FL, with people physically checking on her every couple of days and other people she talked to every day. She hadn't driven in 20 years (a badly broken ankle meant she couldn't drive for a few months, and sometime in there she clonked her head hard enough that post concussion syndrome made it so that she didn't *want* to drive).