The funeral really was beautiful and the staff at Maloney’s did an outstanding job. They really made everyone comfortable during a difficult time for us all. It was good to see the Lynch’s all together again which hasn’t happened in awhile. It was eye opening and made me realize I need to get to New York more often as you see how fast time fly’s bye.

The mass was your usual service with the exception of our priest whom I think was running for political office. Cousin John touched on this in the previous entry and I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed that. This priest told us all about our “FEARS”…….. He clearly had been raiding the stash of holy wine. We just shrugged it off and let him go through his rant…..I mean sermon.

Other than that everything else went smooth and we all said our final goodbyes at the cemetery. After that the whole family went out to celebrate the life of nana. It was nice to have everyone together again just laughing, telling stories, and enjoying themselves.

I know you wish you could be there but don’t worry about it. I know nana would just want you to be happy and live out your dreams. They say travel makes you appreciate family so much more in life and I believe there is a lot of truth to that. In many areas that you have seen so far in your travels family is always the most important thing. It is times like this that we realize how true that really is.

The funeral was the most beautiful i have ever been to in my life. It was exactly what nana would have wished for. It was an amazing day, with beautiful weather, lots of well wishers, and an incredible funeral management team.
The funeral director was an angel herself, with her eulogies, and professionalism. all of the personel in the mahoney funeral home were just there to take care of you and make you feel comfortable.

There was a deacon who spoke in the funeral parlor who was like one of us lynch’s. He was fun, touched on a lot of the thoughts that we all have as a family, and i think we all related to him in a nice way. he was an inspiration, and he made us realize that we should be celebrating the life that nana lived.(and trust me, we celebrated!, ill get to that later!)

We then go to the church after the funeral parlor for a final mass. I must say that i was honored to be a pall bearer. it was a fitting moment. all three of nanas sons(uncle jerry, uncle jim and uncle jack) along with ralph, kenny and myself carried her casket into the church for her final mass. it was a time that i think all of us will not forget.

The preist then reitterated the normal mass from my recollection(which may be distorted, because im not a weekly participant). but then he decided to make a personal political speech about FEAR!
I’ll speak for myself on this one, but this priest was like….feeeeaaaarrrrrrr………..ffffeeeeeeearrrrrrr…………….while looking in all diferent directions, sipping from his cup of holy water( i mean moonshine), this guy was clearly missing bolts! very, very odd, everyone just kind of went along with his antics just to get through his sermon.

afterwards, us lynch’s hop in our entourage and drive to the pinelawn cemetary to have a final service. it was beautiful,the weather, the birds singing in the background, the family, an incredible day to be put to rest.

i want you to know that you were there with us for those 2 days, the wake and the funeral, we all talked about you the entire time. dont ever feel bad about missing this one, because you were both here in spirit!