Am doing the speech at my grandmas funeral and a bit lost on what to say.

[twinsetandpearls]

She was quite a difficult woman and hardly anyone is coming as she has upset so many people. What would people say?

Is that the start to a song

If your mum and sisters are nervous it sounds as if you are the perfect representative for her. Got to go but would love to hear more about her.

Twinset - you have already said some great positive stuff in this thread, go back, read it, and write it down, the stuff about teaching you to sew, about birds and plants, what a great gandmother she was, about her neighbours trying to slit the roosters throat!!! I bet by the time this thread is done, you would have talked about plenty that can make a speech.

She sounds like a character, and sounds like there is plenty about her that was good. Often people who do not confirm piss some people off. It is because they are not always in this reality, not always a bad thing!

Journey's End

How hard we try to reach death safely,
luggage intact, each child accounted for,
the wounds of passage quickly bandaged up.
We treat the years like stops along the way
of a long flight from the catastrophe
we move to, thinking: home free all at last.
Wave, wave your hanky towards journey's end;
avert your eyes from windows grimed with twilight
where landscapes rush by, terrible and lovely.

This poem is quite unusual-maybe it would be appropriate?

thanks MMS will suggest that as well.

Wonderful thread....lovely suggestions.... so sad its too late to help me... but so much love for all our elders