G'day Vicki,



23 Feb 97 07:17, Vicki Crawford wrote to Rod Gasson:



 RTL>> Very sorry to hear of your recent loss.



 RG>> She didn't lose Ray - she had him cremated and knows exactly

 RG>> where his remains are. ;-)



 VC> Umm, not quite yet at the moment. I am still waiting for the phone

 VC> call to come and collect his remains.



Don't they deliver?  



 VC> Once that happens, yes I will

 VC> know exactly where his remains are. With me. Am planting him in the

 VC> front yard overlooking the water/coorong for the view.



I still maintain that that's the backyard..  the front yard being the

side that faces the road. ;-)



 RG>> At a guess, the funeral was attended by 70-80 people.  Other

 RG>> than all the family members it was quite the sysop meeting.



 VC> Come on it was better attended than that. 3 independant counts came

 VC> up with approx 115 people.



That's the difference between a GUESS and a count I suppose 

I based my guess on the fact that there were approx 50 chairs set up

for the service, and from what I could see, there were another 20-30

people standing.

'Course, if everyone signed the guest books you'll have a reasonably

accurate count there.



 VC> And yes I did organise a sysop meeting in

 VC> the middle of it when I realised how many sysops were actually there.

 VC> I collected them



Some people collect stamps - you collect sysops eh?  



 RG>> watching Ray die, must surely have been one of the toughest

 RG>> times of her life.



 VC> Not something that I want to repeat in a hurry. Unfortunately I

 VC> expect to do it all again in years to come with my youngest son. He

 VC> will not outlive me barring unforeseen accidents.



Don't tell me... you enjoyed this funeral so much that your just

itching to plan for the next.  



 RG>> Other than living without one of the nicest men I've known,

 RG>> things can only improve for her now.



 VC> He does make it a hard act to follow.



Such things are always said about the deceased. This time it's true

though.



Cheers,

Rod



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