mama's passing 12/20/2006

Ashes to ashes

We Stallman girls, Frances, Barbara and Sandy, scattered our mother's ashes Sunday evening, June 29, 2008, from the top of Medicine Butte (in Lyman County, South Dakota) to the prairie below. It was a wonderful evening and tossing them to the wind was very spiritual for all of us. Sister Pegge (died suddenly that January) was with us in spirit.Mom was born just inside the Lower Brule Indian Reservation (about seven or eight miles north of Reliance) at the foot of Medicine Butte on the west side. We went to the top of the butte just at sundown (absolutely beautiful) with a wonderful wind to help scatter the ashes. As they flew away and down into the prairie, there must have been a downward current because the ashes would gradually gather into a beautiful puff and a ray of light would pass through the puff just before they disappeared. That did cause one to marvel at what one was witnessing.Sandy took a few pictures of the hills, prairie and Missouri river (off to the north) and when we were looking at them on the computer later, the first picture was absolutely beautiful with the greens and golds of the prairie with good old South Dakota black dirt here and there, and the sun peeking through. About dead-center of the photo is one lone bird flying westward. Was it our mother in her upward flight? I think, in our hearts we know it was.We then put her marker on our dad's grave in St. Mary’s Cemetery north of Reliance. When Marshall brings Pegge's ashes back to South Dakota, we will add a marker for her as well.
Posted by barbara stallman-speck at 5:07 PM
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