Greetings! Is Mr. Fancy Pants offering up a bowl of cherries? Very symbolic. Last Sunday was the first funeral I'd been to where no body was present. And I don't mean "nobody". Joe Rook's funeral was big. Over 1200 guests according to the funeral home. It's likely that for many of the people there, it was the first time to attend a funeral without a body present. Even though cremation is on the rise here, we're still pretty traditional in Southwest Missouri. The main chapel seats 500 … [Read more...] about Goodbye Joe Part Two