Remembering Margaret

Margaret, Peggy, Mom, GG was: born in Jerome Arizona grew up in Anaheim, CA got her RN in San Francisco had two kids retired from Laguna Honda was a “getting old” role model died in Front Royal, VA and then did another two years teaching med students!

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I got an email yesterday from the anatomical donation department of Georgetown Medial School informing me that the cremated remains of Margaret M. Lively were now available for pickup. Mom had made the gift of her body to the University years and years ago and had designated me as the beneficiary of her cremains. She wanted to avoid all last expenses and to continue her medical service into the future. In DC the dust of her sits in an 8x8x6 urn. I will get it in December and bring her memories to Costa Rica. She loved it here, lived at the Villa Alegria in Alajuela for a couple of years. The staff loved to see her wheel out into the garden after dinner to watch the flowers fade into black. Having to deal with her remains prompts me to think about my own, and Jean’s. Death is the final act of living and it is time to plan. So I will visit the City Hall and see what is available there for Mom’s urn and then later for Me and Jean and Terry. Dad is interred in a cremains niche in Sonoma with a vista of the vineyards of Sebastiani. It would be fitting for Mom to be near us surrounded by the Avocado Mountains and a thousand shades of green -gml-