Lulan Royle Chisholm's Funeral

Funeral Card:

In Memory of:
LULAN R. CHISHOLM

Date of Birth
December 20, 1880

Passed Away
August 2, 1971

Services at
Fall City Community Church
Friday August 6, 11:00 A.M.

Officiating
Rev. Elden Unruh

Soloist
Erleen Russell

Organist
Corinne Moore

Concluding Services
Fall City Cemetery

Arrangements by
Issaquah Funeral Home

NOTES:

Lulan spent the last several years of her life in a nursing home.

From my diary for August 2, 1971: "Alice just called (it is 10:15 pm) & Granney just died. She had her supper like normal (she had been feeling better lately, also) when people came in a little later, she was gone."

From my diary for August 3, 1971: "I stayed with Aunt Eve for about a half hour after Jack told her about Granney. I made her bed, emptied her garbage, cleaned her table after breakfast, picked her a bouquet of flowers from her garden (a sample of just abut everything in her garden), let in Molly for awhile and chattered with her about Patty's & David's & Jeannie's music lessons & playing etc." I was 17 at the time. I really had no clue what to say to her, but I'd had my orders to help her tidy up because there would be people dropping in before the funeral as well as on the day of the funeral. Aunt Eve was living at the Little House at the time and I lived next door with my parents. Molly was a big calico cat. Jeannie was her grand-daughter, Patty & David her great-grand-children.

Among the things that happened between then and the funeral was that we also cleaned our house because the pot luck after the funeral was going to be there. I was in the process of making a maxi-dress and hurried to get it finished because it would be the most appropriate item I would have to wear to the funeral itself. Rod & Margaret (my brother & his wife) and their 3 kids arrived (I think they were living in California at the time) the day before the funeral and they were staying with us.

Among the flowers brought for the funeral, there was one very special bouquet. Gen MacManiman, who owned the house and land where Lulan used to live, brought a bouquet made from the flowers from Lulan's old garden at Hill Acres farm.

From my diary for August 6, 1971: "I went down with Rod & Margaret at 10:00. We were too early, so we toured Fall City. We got to the church Bob & Rene parked behind us. The casket was open. She looked almost alive, I felt as though she would breathe. The sermon was things she wrote and liked. I rode in the family limosine to the cemetery and back. Then home to the picnic. Patty K. was at Aunt Eve's. We came up and mixed up meatballs and spaghetti. ... We ate lunch (spaghetti, cantelope, salad, kohlrabi, chocolate cake, blueberry pie) We ate our dessert at aunt Eve's." Bob is Jean Chisholm Garten's son, grandson of Lulan Royle Chisholm. I didn't mention Alice Chisholm-Saunders and her children, but I know they were there. I think Aunt Eve's descendents may have skipped the funeral and gone to stay with with Aunt Eve so she wouldn't be alone during her sister's funeral. The lunch was pot-luck, as is usual in our family after a funeral. We decide whose house and everyone brings something and the family basically has a reunion. This time, both our house and Aunt Eve's house were open for all the relatives but most of the picnic went down outdoors at picnic tables in a cedar grove we always called The Grove.