This morning at 11:00 a.m., we had Charles's Service of Interment in the Memorial Garden at Trinity Presbyterian Church. It was a beautiful morning (the kind of day that Charles would be out riding or running) and the birds were chirping and the flowers blooming. Spring has sprung and new life abounds.

The Rev. Betsy Lyles Swetenburg did a beautiful job and it felt very intimate and right. The service order is below but it doesn't capture the beauty and wisdom of the words Betsy spoke. They included a poem by Mary Oliver "When Death comes". The poem closes with "I don't want to end up simply having visited this world." We all know that Charles was more than a visitor to this world - he embraced life to the fullest and was always ready to jump into whatever it had to offer. Heather & Bobby, Brooke & Drew and I all felt we needed to go ahead and do the interment now and so with Julia and William's blessings, Charles is at rest. 

Well, mostly at rest! Per his request, we kept some of his ashes to be interred at Oakland Cemetery in the old family plot near his namesake, Henry Charles Heinz who was married to Lucy Candler. (Here is a link to their interesting story: http://historyatlanta.com/henry-heinz-murder/)

We will wait to inter those ashes until Julia and William and the rest of the family can be here and we can have the Service of Celebration of his life.

Our prayer for each of you is that you remain healthy and that whenever it is safe to gather in community again, we will get to spend time with each of you.

Blessings,
Patti