FiF- in your prayers you might consider thanking God for her dignity and bravery, lessons imparted over nearly 9 decades of love and sacrifice, no doubt. We will pray with and for you and your kin for all souls' wellbeing, so that her example of that love may always live and shine well into your family's future. God bless you all.

Prayers for all of you.

We visited her yesterday, walked in as she was busily preparing a traditional stew her mom used to make. She seemed, for the first time in a long while, at peace. My grandmother was the first generation in a Romanian immigrant family, met my grandpa when she was 17, they eloped because he was not Romanian. He was an ironworker and drank like a fish, but they were married 63 years before his death. I saw old photographs of them when they were dating, one has my grandma in a 40's style swimsuit, standing next to a fabulous old coupe of some kind. She looked like a movie star. She is the strongest, wittiest, most incredible person I know and will ever know. She raised me for much of my childhood because my mom was a single mom and worked long hours. She taught me how to garden, how to walk through the woods and identify plants and trees, and patiently waited while I waded in streams to catch frogs and crayfish. When I programmed Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances on a recital she knew the tunes, apparently some have words, and told me how the Romanian Orthodox Church she attended as a child used to hold dancing festivals. I don't know why I go on like this I suppose...Thanks everyone for the kind words.