Grandma & Grandpa Cottrell's Headstone

While  in Washington for Christmas we visited the Basin City cemetary, where Jared's mom's parents are buried.  His grandma, Teddy Tenney Coffey Cottrell, died on December 8.  We had wanted to see her once more, but we missed our opportunity. 

Anyway, Jared had been to this cemetary a couple years ago when his grandpa died (actually, that was in June 2010).  I hadn't seen it until this trip.

I really loved the inscription on this rock at the entrance to the cemetary.   I don't know a lot about the Columbia Basin project, but I have tried to imagine what it would've been like to move there in the 1960s. The people who did so were truly pioneers; until then, there was no water and very few residents of the area.  Lots of church members moved north because of the farming opportunity. Today, fifty or so years later, there is a temple in the tri-cities and in Jared's little farm town there are two huge wards (people there have a LOT of children--eight or ten or twelve or even fourteen) and a spanish branch.



This is a photo of Jared's grandparents' headstone. I'm sorry about the way it uploaded. I tried and tried to get it right by rotating the original picture. I have never had this happen before. Anway, I thought it was kind of pretty.  I love the photo on it.  
 
 Grandma Cottrell's death leaves us grandparentless. My grandparents have been gone a long time, and for some reason, having all of his grandparents gone makes me feel strange.  Maybe unachored?  It's sad when we lose a generation and can no longer access them and learn from them.


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