saying goodbye to Armond

This morning we went to Unclue Armond’s funeral. It was sad, nice and peaceful. It was in St. Mary’s… a big old church around the corner from the house were Armond lived most of his life.. as did his mom and dad.. and his grandparents.

A nice group of people had gathered to pay their respects.. There were some good pictures of Armond..

He used to be the chief of the local fire brigade.. so they had his helmet there..

There used to be two St Mary’s.. an Italian one and an Irish one.. Then they tore down the Italian one and combined them.. It was a cool old building Lots of nice stain glass, an organ, incense.. the works.. it had a family feel to it.

After the service, we all lined up to drive to the cemetery. I ended up being a pall bearer.. which I was honored to be.. I really liked Armond and welcomed the chance to say goodbye that one last time.

We got to the cemetery mausoleum. Same place that Dianes Dad, Aunts, and grandparents are buried. There was an army honor guard gather ether to honor Armonds service in the army.. Some of the game guys that had been at Gabe’s funeral.. They fired a three shot volley.. then gave the spent shells to Armonds daughter Cathy.. just like they gave them to us for Gabe.

The service was short and sweet .. we said good bye and shivered in the 20 degree air.

Here’s where Gabe is buried, 2nd from the top on the left.. still waiting for lettering..

And here are diagnose grandparents

and here is Armond and hi first wife’ Jeannes.. yet to be moutnted.

on the way back to the church, DIanes brother steve showed us some of the other family graves. .. Here’s Armond’s Mothere.. and Diane’s grandfather’s first wife Theresa’s grave.