Day 3 of our trip up North - The Viewing and Funeral

Daniel, Millay, Becky, Me, Jileigh

Angelique, Elody, and Sabra

Jeanette holding Ashlyn in back
Jeanette's girls in front: Hannah, Madi, and Kelci (Ashlyn's mom)

Elody on Millay's shoulders

Kairlee's daughters: Marcie, Emmie, Amanda (Mannie), Cassie, Tori

Kairlee's sons: Thomas, Adam (AJ), David, Joseph

My dad's siblings Uncle David and Aunt Vay

Uncle David and Aunt Karen, and Aunt Vay

Mom and Nathan being sad

Jileigh, Phoebe, Millay, Becky, Tessa, Lottie in front

David's family, Marcie's family, Joe's family in front
AJ and wife Ashley, Cassie and Jeanette

Kelci, Matt, Jaren, Kjell, Safia, Marni, and the back of Elody

Aaron, ?, Angelique, Elody, Sabra, Kelci, Jaren, Tabitha, Kjell

Emmie's family in background, DeLane, Daniel, Jared

Mike and Kairlee

Kairlee's family gathered around her to say their last goodbyes.
Touching moment.

Mike and his boys: Thomas, AJ, David, and Joe

I will have to have someone help me out with their names.

The family gathered around watching the video Kendall and Jen put together about Kairlee's life

The family gathered together for the graveside service.

Pallbearers, her sons and sons-in-law

honorary pallbearers, my brothers, Aaron and DeLane

The sons putting their bouteniers on the casket

Kairlee's final resting area

Mike and their kids

My family: DeLane, Aaron, Mom, Jeanette, Jen, Me, Marni, and Nathan

Me, cousin Cindy and Kristen

Day 2 of our trip up north

At 10am, I met with my mom and two of my sisters, Marni and Jen, at Kairlee's house. Matt met with the men, DeLane, Aaron, and Kendall, and kids and Jeanette's family at Jen's house. They went to Bridal Veil Falls. (Matt will write about that after I write about my time with my sisters and mom.) We went to the funeral home and dressed Kairlee in her temple dress and temple clothes. Marni tied the apron, I tied the robe, and Jen tied the sash. Then Jen plucked her eyebrows. It was a special and sacred experience.  Then we went to the music store and picked up the music, 'Each Life That Touches Ours For Good' That my Aunt Karen wrote that was arranged in a SATB format. Then we went back to Jen's house to get ready for lunch.

Cute Elody

Elody and Safia

Miki, Jileigh, and Daniel

Jileigh, Daniel, Miki, Lottie

Beau and Jaren

Bridal Veil Falls

The kids at the bottom, taken from the top of the falls

Clave and Talon

Funny Boy Talon

Clave, Daniel, and Talon

Talon, Jaren, Clave, and Jileigh

Bridal Veil Falls

Clave, Aaron's son 

Talon

the falls from a distance

Jileigh and DeLane, my oldest brother

My Little Beau

Sabra and Angelique

Sabra, Angelique, and Matt holding tired Elody

This is the back of Jen's van. I want to get one made too!

Matt the kids adventure written by Matt: Wednesday we got all of the cousins together and took them to Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon.  We had a nice little walk to the falls and had fun looking at the huge school of trout below the falls.  Then the more adventurous of us climbed up to the base of the falls.  It was fun standing under the falls and taking pictures.

Day 1 of our trip up north

Matt came home from work at 3pm and we made it out of the house at 4:30pm. As we were looking back, we saw a funnel cloud or small tornado. It was pretty cool!
We arrived at Kairlee and Mike's house at 8:30, visited with the family, and ate sandwiches and tacos. Then we headed off to Emmie's house, their daughter. They had a full basement with beds for all of us. It was very nice accommodations.

My sweet sister Kairlee passed away this morning

July 2008 My family

July 2008 Kairlee's family
Karilee Davidson Graham April 10, 1959 to July 7, 2012

This morning at about 7am (Utah Time) my sweet sister passed away peacefully with Mike, her husband, by her side as well as her daughter Cassie. She suffered from Cancer, a brain tumor, about 13 years ago. She had surgery on it which paralyzed half her body. She beat the cancer but then came down with diabetes. About 3 years ago, she nearly passed away, but after being given some blood, she came out of it and survived. She's been bedridden all these years. This past year she's been having some dementia symptoms. She hardly ate anything and she slept a lot. About a week ago, Mike finally took her off all meds except for the anxiety and calming meds that hospice gave him for her. Yesterday, she stopped talking and mostly just slept. She did say a couple of days ago that my dad was with her to take her home. Love you Sista!

My Brother posted this on facebook and I really liked it, so I copy/pasted it. Thanks D!
"Kairlee (Davidson) Graham post: To Family and Friends – On Sunday morning, July 8th, My Dear, Sweet, Beautiful sister, Kairlee, passed away…. Or better .... she was “Called Home”. She is only 1 year older than me. For many years she has been in bed due to the results of Brain Cancer and a Stroke. Her family has been extremely supportive of her, as they Loved her and Supported her to the very end. I will be forever grateful to them.

Her husband wrote: “Earlier in the week, Kairlee mentioned to me that she had seen her Dad. She said that he said nothing to her, but would just be standing inside the room. I felt a warm feeling, and was comforted with peace just after she told me that her Dad had come.”

My Mom wrote: “Kairlee did so much genealogy when she was well that she knows everyone up in the next world. I could give her a name, she could tell me where they lived, where they moved to, and who they married. We will all miss her. She will now be able to be with the family, at their reunions.”

Thank you all for visiting her at home over the years, and for your phone calls to her. Kairlee will be missed, and Forever Loved."


Her funeral is set for Thursday, July 12, 2012. She was 53 years old. She has 9 children and 17 grandchildren.

Here is the link to her obituary:  http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?n=kairlee-davidson-graham&pid=158468839&fhid=7529