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Saturday, July 26, 2008 --- 129 days ago http://www.starcourier.com/homepage/x2043517270/Grandmother-s-cancer-death-taugh
 When you’re 15 years old you don’t think much about death. You know people die, but in your world, everyone you know will live forever, or so it seems. For Stephanie Moore, helping her grandmother, Diane Eastman, die with dignity from cancer was a maturing experience, evidenced in the eulogy she wrote and delivered at her grandmother’s funeral. Diane Packee graduated from Wethersfield High School in 1966 and that September married the only man she would ever love, Paul Eastman. A heart attack took his life on Aug. 2, 1989, just over a month short of their 23rd anniversary, four years before Stephanie was born. Their kids, Jeanna (Moore), Jason and Justin, will tell you their mother was never the same. Jeanna has two photos — one of her smiling, full-of-life mother alongside her dad, and another taken about a year after his death holding her first grandson, Stephen (Moore), looking thin and pale, the smile replaced by a frown. The one thing which has helped the family deal with her death is that the high school sweethearts are together. On the front of the funeral program, designed by Diane before her death, is a photo of Paul and Diane with the words “Our Love Is Forever,” and “United Again” followed by the date — June 27, 2008, filled in by the family after she had gone. Diane, who was employed in the housekeeping department at Kewanee Hospital, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. She fought it and was in remission for abo ... |
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