Beverly passed away four weeks ago and we had a private ceremony for the family shortly after she died. We had planned to have her public memorial service and internment for December 5th. It was well attended by her church family, PEO sisters, bridge partners, DAR friends and a few of Bill's friends. Chuck and Suzanne came up for the service and both Bill and Chuck spoke at it. We had a reception afterward in the church basement. And then we went to the cemetery to have her interned in the urn garden.
Saturday was the 28th anniversary of our military wedding. We spent a little bit of time going through some of Beverly's things to see what Chuck and Suzanne wanted for themselves. Once we filled the trash can and the recycling bin and made a few decisions about things, we headed out to the Columbia River Gorge to do some wine tasting. We went to Cascade Cliffs which was as wonderful as we remembered from our last visit there. Chuck and Suzanne were very impressed with their wines. The manager at Cascade Cliffs recommended that we head to Jacob Williams Winery down the road which was another small winery. They had some very nice wines as well. Our last stop was at Maryhill Winery which is more corporate based. But it was quiet there on Saturday so we got a fair amount of attention from the pourer. We came back to Vancouver and ate a celebratory dinner at La Bottega which was also wonderful. I can't really remember ever celebrating our anniversary with anyone other than Bev or the kids so it was fun to have our best man and his wife here to help us celebrate.
It was a bittersweet weekend. Fun to have Chuck and Suzanne here with us but it was hard saying goodbye to Beverly.
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