Granny "Rests in Peace" On RV Trip
It may be one of the year's more memorable RV stories.A 79 year-old grandmother, teetering on the edge of life with kidney disease, wanted to see kin folks around the country before she died. Relatives loaded up the RV, and soon granny was packed up and headed out east from Oroville, California to Arkansas. The trip to the southland went fine, but things took a different turn when the group was headed across Wyoming bound for a visit in Oregon. Checking on Grandma at 3:00 am, the family reports all was well--but later, somewhere around 1,100 miles from the destination--she was gone.
Rather than interrupt the trip, the relatives continued on to Oregon, whereupon they notified authorities of Grandma's departure. Since the elderly traveler's doctor had advised she was so fragile that she might not survive the trip, it came as no great surprise to the relatives. While some might consider the matter a bit odd, Oregon authorities say no laws were broken and that their investigation of the matter is more a matter of formality.
posted by Russ and Tiña De Maris at
1/15/2008 08:30:00 AM
24 Comments:
Reminds me of "National Lampoon's Vacation" movie where Aunt Edna died on the trip and was tied on top of the car.
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Hal, at 2:22 AM, January 19, 2008
I say what better way to go out of this world than on an RV trip! Good for Granny, and for the family that loved her!
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Flying Solo, at 5:49 AM, January 19, 2008
This just shows you,that it's hard to keep an RVer down.Go Granny Go.Rest in peace Granny.
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Anonymous, at 5:56 AM, January 19, 2008
I truly admire this family for loving grandma enough to grant her wish. I have a terminally ill mother and she is seeing her grandchildren and great-gradchildren as often as possible which makes her smile. What a way to leave this world by doing things you dream about.
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Anonymous, at 5:56 AM, January 19, 2008
that was a very loving thing to do for hew my grandma from arkinsaw wanted the same thing we didnt have an rv but we had a 1963 buick electra and she loved every minute of the trip to see her boys she didnt die in the car but she made it home to be with her kin... praise jehovah
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Anonymous, at 6:08 AM, January 19, 2008
Hi, Is there an actual article in a reputable paper about this? There has been a similar urban myth story for years, even heard one in Europe from the in-laws ...all with no proof.
Sceptical
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Anonymous, at 6:53 AM, January 19, 2008
Go to Snopes.com.
And please if there is a legitimate reporting of this, as another reader suggested, post it!
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Anonymous, at 7:12 AM, January 19, 2008
It appears to be a real story:
http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/KMSB-20080118-apbp-deadgrandma.350ffae2.html
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Mrs Bird Flu, at 7:19 AM, January 19, 2008
Yup, it's real. I typed in the url and up popped a television news posting, and it was dated yesterday! Anyway, I verify questionable e-mail info, urban legends and such on www.snopes.com. Good work!
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onlygood, at 8:17 AM, January 19, 2008
Sort of the opposite happened in our family. When my brother-in-law had terminal cancer with only a few months left, my husband and anothe brother took him on a "road trip" to visit old friends and towns he used to live in. They laughed so much and were so happy the whole time, he lived another year!
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Anonymous, at 9:02 AM, January 19, 2008
Oh. I can hear it now. Some state prosecutor trying to make a name for himself. It is illegal, I believe, to transport a dead body across state lines.
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Anonymous, at 10:43 AM, January 19, 2008
They ended back up in Oregon, and they were on our local news. They had been told by a doctor, that if she past away on the trip home, just keep going. Because if you stop, and report the death, you could end up with the body being in limbo for weeks, and then the extra $$$ to get the beloved one home! I would have done the same thing. This was not a kooky or weird family, just one that loved her dearly...
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Anonymous, at 1:19 PM, January 19, 2008
This could have been our family, and it's not so far fetched. My mother lived with us the last 10 years of her life, passing away in Nov 2004(in a hospital)only a few weeks after our last trip with her in our motorhome. She LOVED the motorhome, and after thinking we were through being able to travel with her to family reunions, my husband came up with a solution for wheeling her wheelchair into the motorhome via a wonderful ramp he built, and we were able to give her some fun time traveling again for a while.
Sounds like this family loved their grandma very much!
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rosie dee, at 5:08 PM, January 19, 2008
2 years ago my mother in law wanted to go to Key West. So we packed up our 2002 Hurricane and
off we went for 4 days. Shortly after the trip she wanted to see our son(her grandson) in MD. We started to make preparations to go when she got realy sick and died. So we made arrangements thru our funeral people to transport her in the rv to MD for final burial. I so glad we TOOK the time for the Key West trip.
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Anonymous, at 5:43 PM, January 19, 2008
Right out of the movies! Strap that rocking chair to the roof.
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Rhea, at 6:31 PM, January 19, 2008
If there is a Hall of Fame for RV'ers Granny has my vote.
I hope my family is as considerate to me when I get to that point in my life.
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Mark, at 7:17 PM, January 19, 2008
If I was in that predicament I would be thoroughly thankful that my family thought enough of me to make my last days happy!!
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Jo K, at 9:31 PM, January 19, 2008
Go Granny Go, sounds like she was special..Bless her family ...her wishes were complete.
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Anonymous, at 11:00 PM, January 19, 2008
My Grandma loved adventures, she traveled all over the world. Loved camping & fishing-she didn't have a license,so our family took her to local areas. We ended up at Chinook, WA in August for the last 50 years. She had a heart attack while out in the river fishing, she was 85 & she requested to be buried with her fishing pole!!!
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Anonymous, at 6:30 AM, January 20, 2008
I'm glad logic prevailed. What was the alternative? Stop and pay thousands of dollars for an ambulance to carry her back home?
It is hard to simply do the right thing sometimes. I'm glad this unfortunate incident wasn't turned into a big issue.
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alur, at 12:55 PM, January 20, 2008
These post's are a great reminder of why the RV community is such a great group of folks and how they do thier best to provide for friends, family and even strangers on a daily basis.
Ya'll have big hearts, and God Bless ya for taking care and thinking of these peoples last wishs.
My 87 year old Father was camping and fishing right up to the end, and he loved nothing more than being with family.
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Matt E, at 8:47 AM, January 21, 2008
My mother, grandma to my children got to take a month long trip with the 4 of us and then not long after that she was gone. So many memories. I also got to take a month long trip with my sister and visit our birth state and within 5 months she too was gone. No regrets on the trips.
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Anonymous, at 3:30 PM, January 21, 2008
I'm right now heading to Oregon to help my family take care of my grandmother who is not doing well. She is home bound and it drives her crazy! So our plan, if she's still around, is to load her up in our Bounder and take her on a Oregon Coast tour. It's a perfect situation with a big windshield, a nice captains chair, bathroom facilities, and a kitchen all in one place, it's just a trveling home.
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Yosemite Dan, at 8:19 AM, January 31, 2008
Had a similar situation with a friend who loved to square dance. He always said he wanted to pass away while dancing. At our yearly celebration he finished a set and took a break. We notice something not looking right when we checked on him and he had passed away. An there was a smile on his face.
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buyitagain, at 9:19 AM, February 20, 2008
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