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Grandma,
I have a very clear memory of you running out to the yard during breakfast in your bluish-green robe to chase the squirrels away from the bird feeder. I believe you had recently installed some sort of cone device on the feeder that was supposed to keep the furry, non-feathery, creatures out - but it must have been failing because out you went, into the crisp fall air, waving your hands, slippers flapping along beneath you. I was sitting at the dark wooden table in a dark wooden seat with a rich red cushion. To my right, just out of the corner of my eye, sat the bright red strawberry-shaped cookie jar, filled with your big, almost bread-like cookies. We didn't have a cookie jar at my house, it was one of my favorite parts of visiting you. At breakfast, I drank cranberry juice and tried to eat grapefruit but I didn't like the taste. It always felt like a fun and exciting idea to eat it with a spoon directly out of the peel, like a mini bowl. But the reality was the flavor and I did not get along. I remember the dark wooden salt and pepper shakers. I remember Rudy's oil paintings and photographs all around. I remember the golden kaleidoscope sitting in the dining room. It was heavy and I loved to pick it up and feel how smooth it was. You used to make me a bunny-shaped cake for my birthday since it falls on or near Easter. And, I didn't like pumpkin pie, but I liked yours because it was frozen and tasted more like ice cream than pie. I remember once you were either loading or unloading the dishwasher. I stood there, looking up at you. You smiled down at me and let me help. I felt connected to you in that moment, a true moment of kindness and love for me. I didn't know that moment would stick with me forever when it happened, but so far, it has. I remember being your travel buddy to St. Martin. You were older then and needed a lot of help. I was really scared that I wouldn't be able to handle it, but I prayed a lot for support and it worked - every step of the way we had the kindness of strangers, helping us along. We did crossword puzzles on the airplane. You were good at them and you had a drive to try to complete them all. I used to call you Grandma Bath because you lived in Bath. I loved your old-fashioned Barbies and your piano and the sound of the occasional car driving by out the window as I fell asleep under an electric blanket in one of the twin beds upstairs. I remember the tiny soap shaped like a duck in the bathroom. I liked to hold it and look at it when I went in there. I remember when I visited your house I would wake up so early, usually between 5:30am and 6:00am. You'd always be up and happy to see me. Except once, it was too early and you shook your head and sent me back up to bed. Grandma, I will always remember your voice. You sang in church and I think I heard you sing Climb Every Mountain once, somewhere, because I can hear your voice singing it in my mind. It was rich and strong. It filled the room and it had a joyful undertone. Everyone always said I must have gotten my own singing voice from you. I wish I could hear it again. I am sorry I didn't get to say goodbye. I'm sorry you didn't get to meet my kids. But you live on, in them. And I am starting to believe that within every human, the entirety of the universe subsides. And that Heaven is here. And so your body goes back to the Earth and your soul expands outward and we absorb it and we hold it, and here you stay, among us, within us. I love you Grandma.
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Anonymous planted a tree in memory of Lois Gyr
Thursday, October 5, 2023
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Nancy Fagan Tuttle planted a tree in memory of Lois Gyr
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
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nancy Tuttle posted a condolence
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Dear Gretchen ,Christopher, Mauritia, and Philip,
My sympathies to you all. As you know, I have many fond memories of your Mother. They begin with meeting her at day care for Philip and Neil. About 4 years short of 60 years ago!!! HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY, Philip. Hard to believe you are both at that age!
But your Mom and I had such fun together while you were all growing up. Our favorite being "cross country skiing".
Hope you all are doing well. You gave your Mom a wonderful life!
Love,
Nancy Fagan Tuttle
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