As most everyone knows, we have had sadness in our house.  Yesterday, Grandma Lillian passed from this world to the next.

Lord, take her into your embrace and light, unencumbered by the ills of her body.
She was well-loved in this life, let her light shine from above now.

My Grandma Lillian had been battling a heart condition, diabetes, and as of last year, cancer.  Every year for the past 5 years there has been a time when we were worried that she would be leaving us.  Once the cancer was detected she was given a limited time.  They couldn’t treat it, since her heart couldn’t handle the strain.

Her birthday was last week, so she made it past the times when everyone thought she would go.  At first the docs said she wouldn’t make it past the 1st of the year, and then it was that she probably wouldn’t see her birthday.  That’s just the type of stubborn lady my Grandma was ;’-)

We have been waiting for this to happen, but it is still hard.  My Dad was her youngest (surviving) child, I was her youngest grandchild, and Kailan and Anya were her youngest great-grandbabies.

She is survived by:

5 Children
15 Grandchildren
26 Great-grandchildren

Her life was full.