Maynard Helgaas: Death of a Local Hero - socializing, remembering

So now, this is it. I after pulling out photos that are more portrait-like from the luncheon I planned on doing the same for the after-visitation gathering, but it's not going to happen. When you see yourself here, you know who you are. And understand this, even if you think you don't look your best, even if you look a little silly, that's ok. You are all good people and there is often a funny side as well as a serious one. What better time to show both than the pre- and post-funeral events?

Both the evening before and the afternoon after the funeral, the families, friends and associates of Maynard gathered to share memories, rejoice in his life, begin to mourn and of course, socialize. The first batch was family and relations. The rest were at the luncheon.

After the visitation:

The luncheon:

Maynard Helgaas: Death of a Local Hero - people

 Okay, so it wasn't the day after the last post, but life sometimes interferes.

There will be one last post, I hope either later tonight or tomorrow, of all of us sitting together, sharing food, a drink and celebrating the life of a good man, now gone.

These are some of the folks at the luncheon. Maynard's sisters, children a nephew and his wife

It was a real Midwestern post-burial affair.

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Maynard Helgaas: Death of a Local Hero: part 3

I continue the posting of the photos I took at on 8/4 and 8/5 during and around the funeral of Maynard Helgaas in  Jamestown, ND.

Tonight's post is a short one. These are photos I pulled out that serve as family portraits, some group, some individual.

The people in them are, for the most part relatives or in-laws. Some of these people I know fairly well, having spent extended time with them. Others are a little closer than acquaintance, and some are people I've only just met. That we all took time out to be there for the Helgaas children and siblings regardless of distance or inconvenience, added to the sense of kinship. You don't have hang out with people for half a century to feel close to them.

Tomorrow I'll post another batch.

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