We had Madison's funeral services today.
Seeing her in that tiny pink casket was heart breaking. She had her favorite Spongebob blanket wrapped around her, and her favorite chap stick in her hand.
This wasn't the normal funeral, it was one done completely in her honor, hardly anyone wore the traditional black, everyone was in pastel colors, mostly pink because that was her favorite. The guys all had pink ties.
We watched a film that was compiled out of home movies, it included her first steps, her laughing and having fun and playing with her brothers and sister. It was beautiful.
We had the family prayer in the viewing room and then we walked out to the main church and there were 300 or more people there for the service. I was named an honorary Pallbearer, but they only needed 4 of her uncles to carry the tiny casket.
At the very end of all the services we released balloons into the sky in her honor, they were pink and purple. As soon as the balloons were in the air everyone broke down into heavy tears and held each other.
She is now laid to rest in the Logandale cemetery alongside her older sister who died after only 30 minutes of life.
She will not be forgotten, she touched many lives in her short time on this earth and we look forward to seeing her bright smile again when we ourselves pass on.
-Makes her post pink and purple, for Maddison- I'm so sorry, Lance... 🙁 I know what it's like to have someone close to you be lost, due to cancer...My Great Grandmother passed because of Alzheimer's and Leukemia...Very sad, that little Maddison had to pass on like that... 🙁 But, she's in a MUCH better place, than this world. She's in heaven now... -Wipes her eyes- I hardly ever cry, but when I do, it's only a little...Very sweet, but sad funeral...She'll always be remembered!