Many of mom's relatives showed up for her 90th birthday party, which she just missed by a few days. Al (nephew) & Linda Lewis, Isabel (Al's mom), Russell (nephew) and Karen Merritt, Butch and Carol (niece) Nichols, Dennis (son) and Mary Merritt, Ana (granddaughter-in-law) and Juan and Diego (great-grand children) Trigueros Merritt, Diana (granddaughter) Merritt, Sid (son's friend) and Harriet Feldman, Barry and Kathy (second daughter-in-law) and Sean and Nick (their kids) St. Clair.
Al brought an old family film where they did a parade in front of the camera. Despite some dissent, another parade was filmed.
We took my mom's ashes to Magnolia Valley and scattered them on an island by the club house, with a number of her friends in attendence. Kathy Weller, who has watched over her and many others, helped organize it. Magnolia Valley was my mom's favorite place in her retirement, and the lake/island is the subject of one of her paintings.