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.