My dad's mother...my grandma Monroe...passed away last night. Her health had been declining for some time, so it was not unexpected. She lived a long and wonderful life, and I am glad that she is not in pain any longer. Grandma, you will be dearly missed, but we are all happy for you to be with grandpa again! I went through my scrapbooks and took pictures (rather than ripping out and scanning them all) of the ones of she and I.
making cookies - 1987
going to see the San Diego Temple under construction - 1991
my baptism day - February 1993
most of the Monroe cousins w/gma at Sea Lodge - summer 1993
at my high school graduation - June 2003
my wedding day - May 2007
One of my favorite pictures of her - so cute! - being helped into the Young's home by our friend Ian for Arica's wedding reception - September 2007
"The perfect and absolute knowledge that we as Latter-day Saints have of the divinity of the work in which we are engaged, the absolute assurance that when life ends, if we have been faithful we are to have the pleasure and the privilege of going back into the presence of those whom we have loved and who have gone on before, and that we shall be associated with our Heavenly Father, our Redeemer, the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Patriarch Hyrum and all of the great men and women who have devoted their lives to this cause, brings a peace and a happiness upon occasions of this kind into our hearts, which I am sure no language that I possess or that anybody else possesses can fully explain.
"To a Latter-day Saint, while death brings sorrow into our homes and our hearts, that sorrow is more or less of the same nature that we feel when we are temporarily called upon to part with our dear ones who are going out into the mission field or who are moving away for some time. That awful anguish that I have seen exhibited by those who know not the truth, I believe never comes into the heart of a true Latter-day Saint."
-Heber J. Grant
