AUGUST POSTS-----My Sweet, Wonderful Daddy died!! AUG 22,2022

On August 22, 2022 my Daddy died. 

Sonja & Randy and LaVerl & I had been at BYU Education Week when we got a call on Friday, the last day, from my brother Curt that Daddy wasn't doing too well and in the hospital. We had seen him in June for his birthday and Father's Day and he'd been pretty sick then, but we all thought he was getting better.  On Saturday, they sent him home with hospice care. I thought I had a week at least to get to Mesa to see him, but he died on Monday.

Don Evertt Dawes

Mom, Sonja, Sherry and I got to go to the funeral home and dress Dad in his temple clothes. It was a VERY SAD DAY!!

Of course Dad didn't really look like 'Dad', but still it was nice to say goodbye, one last time for all of us.

People are so NICE! Mom got sent LOTS of flowers and beautiful, thoughtful cards.

The funeral was on SEPT 8th, 2022

Dad was cremated, so we could wait awhile to have his funeral.

We picked a Thursday so Curt could take off work and come from California, but it ended up he couldn't come anyway. Sonja and I planned it all with Mommy. We went through lots of old pictures, got the program ready and Justin printed it. We made all the arrangements, did lots of crying and kept Mommy company. The funeral was really nice, the songs Shane and Boyd sang were beautiful and somehow Sonja and I got through our talks. The Ward put on a wonderful luncheon afterwards for our family.

The great grandkids that were there, sang "I am a Child of God"

I gave Dad's life story and Sonja did the spiritual talk. She sang 

"Oh My Papa" and that was really hard for her.

Boyd sang, "Why Me Lord?" & Shane sang, "Oh Lord My Redeemer"

Kari's family-

Lisa's family.

Shane's family- minus a few kids

Justin's family.

Mom and little Don.

Curt's family.

Boyd's family

Mom, Garrett, Sherry & Don

Some of Dad's Dawes relatives- 

Sharon & Norris Enlow and 'Sissy and Larry ? and Jeff Beasley

Mom with all her all her kids, except Curt and grandkids-except Reed.

I thought I'd put a few pictures of Dad too.

This one was taken when he was Tillamook Branch President.

Dad's parents- Guy Herman Dawes and Gladys Novella Skeen Dawes

The last August event--

Lillian Aliah Keime turns 7 years old Aug. 29th

She got a really nice little guitar!!

It was hard for Landon and Lucy because it wasn't their birthdays!

EDUCATION WEEK!! So wonderful!!

 We just spent a week in Provo, UT on the BYU campus with Sonja and Randy and our friends Randell and Nancy Penrod. We stayed in the really nice dorms at Heritage Halls. We each had our own bedroom  with 2 bathrooms to share. For $112 a person for a week, it was a great bargain. We loved staying right on campus where we could walk back and forth easily and not have to worry about finding parking.

We drove from Eagar with the Penrod's and Sonja & Randy were already there visiting Shane's family the week before.

We started at 8:30am and went to classes all day and it went by so fast!  We packed snacks in our backpacks and at the end of the day we would eat at the BYU Cougar-eat. So Fun. 

One evening after classes we went to the Provo City Center Temple. Some of us went to a big BYU football activity. We also got to enjoy a live performance of 'Sound of Music', which was wonderful.

We all had an AMAZING time and will hopefully go again next year! Now we just need to apply all the great things we learned!