The Funeral

After Church last week we loaded into the van and headed for Uncle Bert's Funeral.  The viewing was on Sunday night at the mortuary in Castle Dale.  We got to Emery County a bit early and went to Huntington to eat dinner.  There is a great park just off Main Street where we ate and then, after the rain stopped, we let the kids play on the equipment until it was time to change and go to Castle Dale.  They had a lot of fun.  We drove around Huntington a little to see what we hadn't last month.

The viewing was kind of an extension of last month's family reunion except there were a few more people there from the family who hadn't made it last month.  It was fun to catch up with everyone and offer support to Bert's daughters.

After the viewing, we went to Price to check into our hotel.  Monday morning we got up, ate breakfast, got ready and took off for Castle Dale again.  We got there in plenty of time to pay our respects, hang out with the Oman clan and be part of the family prayer.

Here are the last three living children of the Albert Vernon and Mary Dorthea Larsen Oman family.  Dad (Ferris), Voniell Judd and Eldon Oman.

The funeral was very good.  It wasn't a long, drawn-out funeral but a very nice and light funeral.  There were a lot of fun stories told of Bert by his one daughter and two grandsons.  He was a neat man and it was fun to remember some of the stories that I had forgotten and some of the things that I now appreciate about growing up in a small place.  The chapel was filled mostly with family (we took up a lot of seats) and there were quite a few Boy Scouts there to honor Bert also.  It was fun to see some teachers I had in high school attend. 

The burial was nice also.  We were all given a small rock and, after everything was over, we were asked to put it on his casket and the rocks would be buried with him.  I liked that touch.  Since he had been in the military, taps was played and the gun salute was done for him.  The boy scout leaders from the Scofield Camp also came down and sang two of the songs they sing at the close of scout camp.  It was nice to see how many scouts were at the funeral.

There was a luncheon by the ward and then we changed and were off to Denver.