Cleaning Out My Mother's House

On March 9th, Garth and I traveled to LaVerkin and Joined LuDeen in cleaning out the house our mother had lived in for the past 27 or so years.

The first thing we did was to take all of the silk type flowers in the house and decided the best place for them would be to decorate our parents' graves in the LaVerkin Cemetery. My sister, LuDeen Lundin, is placing the flowers .




Mother's first request was that anything that had been given to her was to be returned to that person. As we went through things in the house, we put anything that we could identify in piles for each member of the family.

Our next step was to clean off the shelves in the store room and we stacked everything from the house - except for the dishes from the kitchen - on the shelves in the store room ready for the family to gather and decided what they would like to keep before we give the rest away.























After 3 days of work, we pretty much had everything ready for a family gathering later in April when we will finally dispense our mother's belongings so that the house can be rented.




















LuDeen is going through a lot of paper work.




Here piles are being made for different people to take.















As we finished, we met with Brent and Kathy Nelson - they bought and live in our former home - and we gave them a plaque with a handkerchief that Mother had crocheted and a picture of Mother and Dad when they were first married.


They have been very good friends to our mother and to our family.