Good Lord, there’s GOT to be trouble!

Daddy’s sister, Nenia, contacted my sister Mary Helen and corrected two errors I made in the obituary.  I put the wrong name for my cousin Alisha’s husband.  His name is Jarred, not Josh.  I should have double-checked, so that’s my bad.  I mistakenly put "Brandon" instead of "Brendon" for Nenia’s grandson.  She was not upset about that…it was an honest mistake.  

What upset her is that I named my aunt Karen in the obituary.  Karen was married to my Uncle Johnny, once upon a time.  She is mother to Alisha and Johnny Grant.  Nanny and Karen continued a loving relationship well after Karen and Johnny divorced, so I felt it only fair to mention her.  

Long story short…Nenia and Karen had a falling out a few years back.  Nenia no longer considers Karen family OR friend.  That’s her problem.  WE do, and MH put her foot down on Nenia, for once.  MH said she’d discuss it with the family, but that she saw zero reason to remove our aunt’s name from the obit.  I agree 1000%.  Just because Nenia has a problem with Karen doesn’t mean that Nanny or any of us did or do.  

I’ve been afraid that SOMETHING stupid would come up to upset the apple cart; here it is.

We’re not changing it.  We’ve put word in with the funeral home to change the misspellings, but we told them only to accept changes to the obit from MH or me.