A tribute to my grandma

This post is a bit overdue, mostly because it is difficult to know where to start for something like this. My Grandma Loomis, who was my last living grandparent, passed away the Sunday before Christmas. She had always been such an important part of our family and so it was difficult for all of us to lose her.

There are many things I could say about my grandma: she was strong, generous, hospitable, and the greatest cook I have ever met; but a list of attributes never adequately describes a person. From the time we were very young, my family would once a year take a road trip to Florida to spend a week with my grandparents at their beautiful home on a lake near Orlando. Sarah and I would get more excited for these trips than for Christmas morning...there are so many great memories from our times at our grandparents house that it is impossible to begin to recount them. Even when we were teenagers we still so much looked forward to a week spent with our loving grandparents.

For Christmas 2006, my grandma very generously paid for our entire family (Becky and I, mom and dad, Sarah, and Aunt Wendy) to go on a week-long cruise together. That week will forever be one of the greatest weeks of my life. After each day of doing our own various activities we would have dinner together as a family. We would spend hours at the table telling stories and laughing. It was everything family should be. I imagine that must have also been one of the greatest weeks in the long and full life of my grandma. How amazing that must be to sit around a dinner table with your son, daughter, grandkids, and grandkid-in-law and see how much love they all have for each other and how much they appreciate and enjoy the gift of life. I suppose you might realize that you had done something very well to have raised such an incredible family.


We were blessed to all be together one last time for Sarah and Josh's wedding this summer. We had hoped that we would spend this past Christmas together, but unfortunately that was not the case. My grandma will be deeply missed by her family and the many friends she had.

To read the obituary please click here.

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