Grandma

Bernice Eleanor Hardy Sprague

Sunrise ~ Sunset
July 21, 1920 ~ September 19, 2010

Memorial Service - September 25, 2010
LDS Dover Chapel, Newport Beach, California

On a beautiful clear day, a fine sailing ship spreads its brilliant white canvas in the morning breeze and sails out to the open sea. We watch her glide away through the deep blue and gradually see her grow smaller and smaller as she nears the horizon. Finally, where the sea and sky meet, she slips silently from sight and we say, “There, she is gone.” Gone where? Gone from our sight, that is all. She is still as large in mast and hull and sail and just as able to bear her load. We can be sure that just as we say, “There, she is gone!” another says, “There, she comes!”

Todd and I were able to go down to California last weekend to share sweet memories of my Grandma Sprague with those that loved her. She was a beautiful, intelligent, generous, and sweet lady. I will forever count being her grandaughter, as one of my greatest blessings.

She was buried in a cemetary in San Bernadino next to my Grandpa who died in 1970.

Aunt Debbie & my Mom ~ Grandma's 2 children