When Grandpa Died

By Kendra Minnick

June 26, 2001

Age 11

It was a cold wintere January day in 1997. I was at school, my grandpa was at home laying in bed suffering from lung cancer and my grandma was right there by his side holding his hand, and my mom was at work teaching a class. When all of a sudden my mom's friend Cathi came bursting through the door and my mom new right away that something was wrong with her daddy. So Cathi and her just hurried and hopped in Cathi's car and hurried to there house. My mom was all worried in the car she was like Cathi is he okay is he still with us. And Cathi was like yes he's still alive but we need to hurry and get there. When they got there my mom ran in there and started balling and she was so scared she didn't know what she would do without her daddy. So then after she got herself together she had Cathi drive over to my school to pick me up at school and I remember that before she told me she was like come on Kendra we gotta go and I refused and I said,"but mom we are having spagetti for lunch today. Then she took me into the back room and told me why we had to go so then I understood so then I got my things and I was in the car and I got there and he had already passed on. I was so sad. But he stayed active because he went to church on Sunday and died on Tuesday. But luckily I have a lot of good memories with him. But we [my family] know that he went to God. I know that a lot of people tried to help us through losing him but only one person really helped and that was GOD. I love God and will praise him as long as I shall live.