death in the family

thewife’s aunt passed away last thursday. It was very sudden. She died in her sleep. This is thewifes fathers sister. 3 more sisters left. And we just saw her the previous Saturday when we went to pass her some cakes.

thewife went over to help out on thursday night and i went over on friday night with theson. as usual, there were loads of friends/relatives that that i could not recognize. a lot of thewife's cousins were around.

It would seem thewife’s mum’s long standing grudge will not end as well as she did not want to go over to talk pay her respects at first. Thewife was not happy and she made it known. and in the end, it seems thewife's mum went over the next day. so all is well, i guess.

thewife recounted some stories abt her aunt who was a good cook, seamstress, babysitter and she was also the one who taught thewife to knit. but she had a hard life as in the end she was still working and she was 73 already.
again, it teaches us not to take our old folks for granted.

the funeral was on saturday. again, i was awarded a blue sash and a black umbrella since i was the "nephew-in-law" person. me and thewifes sisters husband actually led the procession when the hearse moved out from the house before we boarded the bus. she was cremated at the same place thewife's dad was cremated. the bus trip there tooks around 30mins and the ceremony was relatively short and simple.