Rudy was a wonderful sister.  She had a full life that included children, lots of traveling and a loving family that stayed behind in Maine.  She was easy to please and very easy to make laugh.  She never needed any frills----just the basics made her happy.  She will be sadly missed by her brother, Gary and wife Ida

 I asked my Mom one day if I was adopted,and she told me to go look in the mirror and come back,I did and told her we had the same color hair,she said we look so much alike,I thought that was the sweetest thing she could have said! My Momma was a music lover like me and we spent lots of afternoons camping,singing together,she told me we harmonized so beautiful together,music was a big bond with her,just like my brother.I learned so many things of her childhood and dreams as we listened and sang(and cleaned) to Johnny,Rodger,and Glenn miller.One of her favorite things to do was sing.
  My Mom was an amazing cook!I will NEVER forget staying up all night and basting Tom the turkey.These were good memories.
   As she got older and in the last 10 years we would talk on the phone alot and she sounded always the same,it was hard to remember she was getting older.in the last years we would watch TV Land because it showed the same shows in Florida as it did there.It really felt as if we were "watching" them together! We loved doing this .Or she would tell me stories of singers she had known and I would find them on You Tube,and I would play them for her and she would say "You're KIDDIN!!! it made me soo happy to find one she really didn't think was possible .I could just see her face light up and to think in my mind I made her smile.I love you Momma....always and forever???

I remember sitting and listen to you and mom talk and play Othello love you

Nature

As a fond mother, when the day is o'er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken playthings on the floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassured and comforted
By promises of others in their stead,
Which, though more splendid, may not please him more;
So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads us to rest so gently, that we go
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
<a target="_blank" href="http://poetryfoundation.org/index.html">The Poetry Foundation</a>

Let His light shine as we remember the good times.   Like when you visited Alaska and we toured Denali National park.  Or when all the family got together at Christmas.

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Barbara Ruth Griffin

13 February, 1931 – 12 October, 2012

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