Anything can be news. It all depends on your definition.
The full (for-the-service) version.
(I wrote this as well as the shorter one that was published in our local paper.)
Gladys Langley graduated to heaven Tuesday evening, August 1, 2006, surrounded by family. She was 87 years old.
Born in Brush Valley Township, Penn., on September 16, 1918, Gladys attended the schools of that area. After [...]
Or beginning. However you like to say it.
Mom tells the people on the phone that Grandma “graduated” last night. On the folder (what do you call the hand-out at a memorial service?) Her “passing” is written as the date she “ascended.”
I find all the words used instead of death interesting. Jay and I were talking [...]
The song I sung when I was alone with Grandma for the last time.
You are so good in your mercy
Taking what I cannot bear
Taking a heart that was wounded
And making it beautiful, beyond compare
(chorus)
And what the locust have eaten
My Lord can restore
And what the enemy’s taken
My Lord gives me more
And my Jesus will mend my [...]