A Wonderful Celebration

Great Uncle Reading letters from the family!!!

Gramps Memorial Service

Our complete Family!!!

Today we said are goodbyes to Gramps and Joel really wanted to sit on his lap one last time.

Memorial Service

We will have a celebration of life service on Saturday, May 9th at 11:00 am, at Bethany Baptist Church

In lieu of flowers contributions may be made out to Bethany Baptist Church who will then send them on to two ministries close to Bill's heart.

Memorial Funds will go to benefit the ministries of COME TO HIM http://cometohim.com/ and Athletes In Action http://www.aia.com/ .

Please send all Memorial Fund gift to

Bethany Baptist Church

4545 NW Kaiser Road

Portland, Oregon 97229

Thank you all for your prayers, love and concern.

Becky

Heaven

Gramps is in heaven now, he went to be with the Lord this afternoon at 4:10pm and is now dancing around in his beautiful garden in heaven. Thank you everyone for all the love and support you've shown our family through this process. ~Megan

As we prayed as a family, by Gramp's side Joel was very quiet and then as my Dad (John) was in the middle of the prayer Joel started yelling AMEN:o) What a blessing!!!

Tentatively the service will be Sat. May 9th, 11am at Bethany Baptist Church.

Comfort

We are just trying to keep him as comfortable as possible now.

As we near the finals hours, the nurse told us that Gramps no longer needs his oxygen tank so at 7pm tonight we shut it off. Mom (Becky), Dad (John) and Gram will all be spending the night together tonight and caring for Gramps as we near the time for him to go to heaven.

Pain

It hurts Gramps to even hold his hand now. Today was very hard one for Grandma and tonight when I visited (Megan) I wish to forget. It isn't my Gramps anymore............................