eulogy

Kay so we are supposed to write eulogies for my english class and thought i would share.  KEEP IN MIND I DO NOT THINK THIS FOND OF MYSELF!  But it is supposed to be for a funeral and they always say how awesome people are.  Not to mention I hope to leave behind this kind of legacy.  ENJOY. ( i do not plan on doing half of these thing for real in my lifetime)




.Today we gather here today to mourn the death of one of the liveliest 75 year olds any of us knew.  However, I know Robyn wouldn’t have wanted us to mourn her death.  She was all about celebrating life and living it to the fullest.  She left this world having a party and she would want us to celebrate her life in a party like manner.  She was one of the quirkiest, craziest, most colorful people I know. 

            A few fun facts about Robyn: she was born in a car, broke both her legs at the age of two, loved to make people laugh, and was obsessed with the color pink.  On her 21^st birthday she had her brother take her two a bar where she then ordered a root beer! (She had been planning that since high school).  When she was 25 she back packed around Europe and went to all the museums she ever dreamt of.  When she was in England there was a guy who worked at their hotel who refused to admit they had made a reservation.  She could not stand that fact so she went up to that guy and demanded that he look at his records in the computer closer, but he still refused.  So she got her face real close to his and had a staring contest with him until he gave in!  When he looked closer in the computer, as she said it “the snotty Britt had to realize too much crumpets and tea had made him forget how to check things correctly because our name was RIGHT there!”.  As I have heard it she then yelled for hooray so loud that they heard her in china.

That was Robyn.  Over the past ten years she decided she was going to be a dare devil granny!  She said she wanted to be heard hollering in excitement as she whizzed past 20 year nothings (as she called them) on a zip line and have then look at her surprised when they saw a 65 year old lady in a hot pink jump suit in better shape then them!  She went on numerous zip lines, bungee jumping, and rock climbing and cave spelunking.  She lso went on a long trip in the Amazon with her lifelong friend Elizabeth bond where they drove off a cliff but had parachutes that saved their lives!  Some how they didn’t even end up in the intensive care unit of the hospital, just the basic care.  Her last dare devil achievement she wanted was to go sky diving.  She claimed that once that happened she would go join a knitting club and make crumbly cookies like the rest of the ladies her age!  Of course once she went sky diving along side with a buddy it was not enough and she had to be certified to do it by herself.  That was when she died.  Her last test she was so excited her heart gave out while she was flying through the air “like super man!” as she would have put it.

When you look at an over view of her life all you see is a woman who graduated from BYU Idaho with a bachelor’s degree in recreation management, served a mission at age 21 and got married.  She then became an activities planner at a senior citizen’s center and had three kids.  She retired at age 65 and became a volunteer for the pro life organization. She loved her mom who was her inspiration and always told people” you are my hero number three after Jesus and my mom”.  She loved all three of her siblings and dad as well.  She left behind a husband and three kids. She was more than that though.  Not only was she a loving mom who could make funny voices and we all thought should do stand up for years, she was a fantastic person who let the lord’s light shine through her. And now we will play the song she has requested to be played at her funeral since she was in high school. “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”\

by robyn cramer