Today we buried the ashes of both Diane and her husband Lloyd Carhart. Lloyd had died no too long before Diane passed and she haden't been able to get Lloyd's children to settle on a time when they could get together to bury Lloyd's ashes. Not too long before Christopher Parker took Diane from us she had told me that she felt badly that she hadn't buried Lloyd's ashes yet, but there must be a reason for that. Now we know the reason - It was so they could be buried together.
The weather report promised rain but thankfully we only had a couple of short bouts of passing drizzle. The rain held off while we were at the cemetary. Bette McClure, Minister at the First Congegational Church in Fairhaven met us at our family gravesite. She was very eloquent as she spoke of Diane and Lloyd and also led us in prayer. It was a shame that none of Llyod's four children were able to attend.......
After the service we went back to my Grandmother, Louise Kelsey's, house in Mattapoisett. We had about 25 people there and I enjoyed putting together the cookout that we had, it was just like years ago when we would have cookouts at Gramma & Grampa Kelsey's each summer. The weather even cleared up a bit and I think everyone had a nice time and left stuffed full of linguica, hot dogs, hamburgers and a variety of salads, fruit and potato chips.
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