Lorraine Auclair died at 9 am CDT in the Benedictine Living Center in Garrison, ND.
She was pretty far into Alzheimer's and hadn't conversed or shown signs of recognition in some time.
My brother Chuck called to tell me, and then I spoke with his wife Nancy.
Mom was dressed this morning and seemed fine, as usual. She was sitting peacefully in a chair in a sun room. People checked on her a couple times and noticed she seemed pale. She was unresponsive and remained so when moved to her bed.
She had just turned 94 earlier this month.
She will be cremated in Bismarck and sent to a cemetery in Paxton, Massachusetts, where my father, Joseph Auclair, has awaited her since he was cremated and buried after dying at 83 in 2001.
When he died many attended a funeral service at the cemetery, but since then everyone of their generation, siblings and their spouses on both sides and even their cousins, has died.
Those of us of the next generation who would wish to can't travel in the face of the virus, and some are unable anyway.
She was Catholic.
Say a prayer.
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