I am a few days late in getting this up here but I have been trying to think of how I wanted to do this. My friend Bryce was laid to rest on Tuesday October 30th. There was an outstanding 700 people that attended his services!!! I had been up late Sunday night trying to find a flight to get me out there so I could be there but trying to get a flight that would have me back home in time to be with the boys for trick or treating was impossible. I struggled with what to do and went back and forth in my mind but I just couldn't let the boys down. I sadly had to email Tammy and let her know that I was not going to make it there for the services, I was extremely sad and down about missing it. I sent her text messages that morning saying "Hugs 4 U" and she replied telling me how beautiful Brycey looked!!! Later I had gotten and email from her telling me how the services went. Bryce was truly an AMAZING and AWESOME person!!! Tammy said that 40 members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir filled the large chapel with beautiful music.
Tammy gave such a beautiful description of what the day was on her blog that I have linked http://www.brycedbrown.com/journal/2007/11/week-in-a-fog.html
Here is a small piece of what she said:
The funeral lasted two hours, and none of it was boring. I tried to check out the crowd, but it was hard to see who was there—as I said, I have been in a fog. As we followed the casket outside (I'm sure the pallbearers were glad Bryce lost all that weight--you guys must have one longer arm today ;) to the vehicles, Nic sped around the corner with a SWEET new Porsche in which to transport me to the cemetery. How he scored the use of that car for the day, I’ll never know. It was fitting, as Bryce was a Porsche fanatic. We like to think Bryce was in there with us, saying, “Come on—let’s see what this baby can do!” (Incidentally, we saw what that baby could do after the burial. That car rocks.) Bryce was buried on the hillside, close to his younger brother Brian. Brady dedicated the grave with a beautiful prayer. The weather was perfect, the flowers were beautiful, and many people honored Bryce’s fight by laying their “We’re Killing Cancer” wristbands on the casket. I also saw a few of the wristbands decorating several headstones around the cemetery. It made me sick to think Bryce was caged up in the casket and would be under the ground. I hated it.
If you have never had a chance to read Bryce and Tammy's blog I strongly suggest you bookmark it because as she says, she has only just begun....
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