Saturday, August 20, 2011

REALLY long distance phone call?

My grandmother passed away last week. She was 92 years old. She was a very sweet, kind, funny, intelligent, warm woman who is, and will be missed dearly. Her funeral was this past Thursday, but she was brought home to Kentucky for burial. She grew up down here and her husband and her deceased children are buried here as well.

After the grave-side service, all of her relatives from Kentucky that had come to pay their respects and those of us from up north started to file out of the cemetery. As we looked back, my sister and daughter noticed that the cemetery workers had come on site to lower her into her final resting place. Though it's not something that one wants to witness, the added closure seemed necessary for them so they returned grave-side.


The workmen secured their tethers and began to lower the casket into the earth. As they began, one of their cell phones began to ring. It wasn't the standard T-Mobile jingle, or even an old-fashioned metallic ringtone that those sitting around watching their Mamaw laid to rest heard though. Instead, it was this classic: http://youtu.be/1bGOgY1CmiU .

I'm not sure how this happened, nor who that call was intended for, nor who made the call, but I can tell you that it definitely added a freaky, yet reassuring moment to the day.

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