Seeing Patty

Glenna recently was diagnosed with two aneurysms and scheduled for corrective surgery that sounded horrendous. During procedures leading up to the surgery, she was found to require three coronary artery bypass grafts before the abdominal surgery could be done. Glenna’s attitude was bright, that she was ready for whatever might come. "And if I die," she told Joe, "it just means I’ll see Patty sooner." The open heart surgery at Kettering Hospital in Dayton went well.

Stopping by Joe’s house in Winston-Salem enroute, Lauren drove to Dayton from Raleigh this week to take Glenna home from hospital and care for her as she recuperated and looked forward to the next surgery. Glenna went home Wednesday and had a pretty good day Thursday.

Joe called us Friday morning to say that Glenna died overnight. We are sad, for Glenna who was such a bright soul and who was dearly loved by family. For Lauren, who lost Patty her mother two and a half years ago and now will miss her grandmother terribly. For Joe, who loved Glenna as a second mother. For Glenna’s three sons, Lauren’s uncles, Patty’s brothers. We are thankful for Glenna’s life, and that Lauren was there to see her off into the promise and to her holy hope.

Give courage and faith to those who are bereaved, that they may have strength to meet the days ahead in the comfort of a reasonable and holy hope, in the joyful expectation of eternal life with those they love.

And we are thankful that Glenna is no longer bereaved.

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