Saturday, February 14: Mom’s Funeral Service

Hi there it’s Saturday, February 14 is Valentine’s Day but most of all it is my mom‘s funeral today. She lived on 96 years old. Mary and I 
got up around 7:30 AM. I went out to Montreal spread bakery and nobody was there. I got two coffees and went to the minimart and got two sandwiches. I got dressed. Mary took a shower and it’s now 8:55 AM and I’m waiting for Mary to come with her phone. And I don’t think she can

find her phone so I’m going call her. We have to be at church at 9:15. Well, we actually made the church by around 9:17 AM. Will you 
made a really good pace with going down? I-76 and I-95. It was pretty amazing. Brought over the particle board with the pictures and there were   2️⃣ guys 
there at the church we parked near nice black ice & managed not to slip on that. The service was pretty good Dave Alice did a pretty goodjob of getting speakers, etc. on the program. John and I earlier had an adventure trying to find a bathroom that was interesting. It was funny. So we found out various a bathroom went to church. Anyway, service was well fought out and very emotional. We were the pallbearers David, John, Mike, and myself. Have afterwards the receptionist held at Dave’s club Spring Haven golf club. Everybody hung out and shot the shit, etc.. it was nice to see everybody. Folks you’re gonna meet at some bar but no decisions for me. It took the family about an hour and a half to decide that they were 

going out but by that time I just wanted to go home and so did Mary. Went back to the Dorchester ordered Indian and watched Law and order. It was very comforting. Tomorrow our plans to go to Long Beach Island for a little road trip and getaway for the burial on Monday. It was good to see the 
whole family again. The reception was very very nice. The club was a perfect spot for it. If you want my opinion and I know everybody wants my 
opinion you see. The weather held off and didn’t rain or snow or blow or go down to 15° and all that other kind of East Coast weather in February has to offer for us and our kin.

Wednesday, February 11: Helping Dave w/ Mom Stuff

This morning, I woke up feeling a very tired, but definitely better rested than I was the night before. I got a full seven hours of sleep, whichis cool. Mary made me some delicious bacon and eggs, and I went to the café to fetch your coffee. It was quite a nice way to start the morning. I then walked most of the way to Mike’s, but I caught a 12 bus at 18th and Spruce and got off at 15th and spruce. There was only three blocks but it really saved me some time. Fortunately today’s
Wednesday it’s I can sign out late from Mike’s. I then took some pictures for Mike for a Social Security application and then Dave called and wanted me to come up there and help him out with finding mom‘s phone book so we can call people. Also to do some cleanup of her room. I’m heading out via the market Frankford 
line in the Broad Street line. It’s only 2️⃣ minutes slower than calling Uber. Uber is an option if need be. Anyhow, I got home and quickly dove into the 20 Photo Albums that my mom had to dig in some representation of her. Inadvertently of course I ran it to old pictures of myself with people such as Linda, Amsterdam and Kim Lee people I used to see back in the day. It was a trip just as I was catchingan Uber to Media. Alice called and we talked for a little bit until Dave called her. Things are gonna be moving quite fast. I also had to cancel my 2 o’clock appointment.Hopefully I won’t get charged for canceling two hours ahead of time, but I think I have a good excuse. I arrived at Dave’s, and I walked the dog with him. We just shot the shit and talked about the business at hand. He then left on an important errand and I sorted out this box of stuff she has and found some phone numbers of people that she still had communication with which was a Royal find. Also Found obituaries from ColemanSellers my grandfather on my mom side a.k.a. my grandfather. It’s now 1:20 PM I formally canceled my appointment with Hockenberry, 

and Alice called me while David was away which was cool. She was needing help writing up the obituary. I’m hoping we can finish this part of the conversation before Dave gets back. Anyway, I’m in the basement and he has his lower ceiling. I’ve bumped my head like three times. I have a nice bruise on my head or at least a little tiny one. I don’t 

even know if I’m gonna get back in time to get the Mike’s by 4:30 which is my goal at this point, but I don’t wanna cut out on Dave because well that doesn’t have to be discuss. Well, there is no way I was getting back to Mike’s. I ended up going with Dave to the funeral Director after going over Alice’s obituary for three different copies and then Dave printed out the final copy and sent it to the funeral home. I then got a ride to the Media to Media station after Dave and A funeral Director guy talked to golf for 15 minutes. After that I came back to Mary’s and there’s no way I was in the mood to do any yoga even yen and I ended up just lying down and cozying up with her and then we got up and got some Indian. Mary’s going to see the doctor tomorrow about her injuries due to her fall. That’ll be good. Tomorrow I go to the welfare office for Mike.