Lee Family Eulogy

I tried on several occasions to write a eulogy for my mother. If I had made the effort by hand, all that you would have seen would have been an enormous pile of paper balls tossed in and around the trash basket. I simply could not come up with the right words for the occasion. My thoughts and feelings about her passing were just too difficult to express publicly.

Of course, I could relate any number of events in my life that were touched by my mother. I know that each of you who have also lost a parent – which includes all of you -- could do the same. So, I won’t bore you with a lengthy recital of personal recollections about my mother. It is easier to say that everything that she ever did for me was based on her unconditional love …show more content…
She always viewed her siblings as a central part of her life. So much so that Emmy and I sometimes felt that she neglected us. For example, I remember my mother “working the room” at family banquets, where she seldom sat down at our family’s table, but instead always seemed to be moving around visiting other family members to see if there was anything she could do for them.

I think that the photographs in this album are illustrative of exactly how important the entire Lee Family was to my mother because, as I was sorting through all of her photographs, I came to realize how many of the pictures were not just of her and her nuclear family, but included photos of all of her sisters and brothers and their families as well.

So, it is her love of family that is the motivation behind the Lee Family Memorial Dinner that my sister and I are hosting at La Folie this evening. We hope that this event will give us each a chance to reconnect by reminiscing about those days when we were younger and when the family was closer, as well as to give each of us a renewed appreciation for how important our connections to one another as members of the Lee Family have been in the past and will continue to be in the