Grandpa Leonard McKneely

After a busy and stressful spring with Grandpa Leonard McKneely.  He started having dementia really bad.  He kept running away from home because he didn't think he was home.  One instance he ran away and ended up in Houston with a dead cell phone and completely lost.  We issued a silver alert for him and thankfully he was found alive.


The family put him in a home and he was determined to "break out".  But eventually he got sick and just stopped fighting and passed away peacefully.

The death was a wonderful time as a family.  We are grateful that families can be together forever.

As I am typing this post event, I am so grateful for this experience with our family as my children went through the whole process of a viewing, a funeral, and a burial all with someone with whom they didn't really have a relationship so that when my mother was killed, the whole process was fresh and recent to them.  It was a tender mercy for which I am grateful.