Funeral Photos

Thank you to all for sharing their cameras and pictures!

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Jim's Funeral

On Saturday, April 23 we will spread Jim's ashes in the Tonapah Sand Dunes. We look forward to friends and family members joining us in this act. We will most likely camp and ride Friday through Sunday but understand if some are only able to come for that day. We welcome all and understand that not all can come.

Either way, please fee free to send any memories you would like shared.

To all that are interested in coming to Tonapah for my father's funeral, please email me at jessit3@gmail.com so that we have some idea of who's camping and who's not, what vehicles will be there, etc. You can also email memories to that same address. Thank you.

Memorial DVDs & Funeral Service

After many hours of editing and revising the slideshow from Jim's memorial service, I finally finished creating DVDs of the final project! There are several at our house in Bishop but I can also mail you one if you email me (jessit3@gmail.com) your address.

If you're interested in attending the funeral service, we are going to have a celebration of his life as we spread his ashes at the Tonapah sand dunes. We are planning this for Easter weekend - April 22-24. More details will be posted on this site as the date gets closer.

In the meanwhile, please continue to send stories for the memory book, as we'd like to share these at the funeral.

Memorial

Thanks to all of the family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, doctors, caretakers, and others who came to the memorial on Saturday, December 4. Also a special thank you to Arnie and Kelliann Palu for offering their fabulous home and hospitality for the event. It was spectacular to see how many people were able to share in his memory and provide support.

To those that couldn't make it, we still plan to spread his ashes in the spring - tentatively April 21-24 (Easter holiday weekend) - save the date. I would still love to get entries for the Memory Book I'm putting together to share at that time.

For all, I am working on making the slideshow into a DVD and also posting it online. I will at least have CDs available while I'm home for the holidays this weekend, and will leave some there for interested parties to pick up.

MEMORIAL SERVICE

Our wonderful cousins, Kelliann and Arnie Palu, have offered their home for our dad's informal memorial potluck. Here's all of the details:

WHEN: Saturday, December 4 at 3:00 p.m.

WHERE: 208 Grandview Drive, Bishop, CA 93514 (behind Inyo County/Jill Kinmont Booth Community School) - it's the first house on the right next to a dead-end street

WHAT to bring: Memories, BYOB and it's potluck style so here's the breakdown:
Last names A-I = main dish
Last names J-Q = salad
Last names R-Z = dessert

WHO: All are welcome! Hope you can come! If you are not able to attend, please send a story for the Memory Book instead!

The End of a Battle, but the War Goes On…

James Preston Tyerman passed away yesterday, Friday November 19, around noon. It was just 9 days after his 63^rd birthday.

My dad always hated hospitals so it is wonderful he didn’t spend his last moments there. He was in the living room in his wheelchair. Josh, Mom, and Aunt Linda were all there.

Roberta from Hospice came over within 5 minutes of my mom’s call to check his vitals to make sure he had gone to a better place and help with preparations.

This past week was a progressive decline… Just five days before I was here and he was still walking, with assistance. Since then he became bedridden. Friday was a rough morning - he was very weak, refused oxygen, and just couldn’t seem to get warm enough.

I am so relieved he is not suffering in such great pain anymore. It is not a way to live. We are happy he was at home, although this was a struggle for the family too.

We plan to spread his ashes over the sand dunes when the weather is better – perhaps in April. We might have an informal memorial service sooner …details to come. I am still going to put together the aforementioned "memory book."

I can’t believe this all happened in only about a year. Cancer is a terrible disease that should be a “war” we are spending energy, time, & money on, instead of these other dishonorable, futile wars. The hardest thing to watch is how cancer sucks the vitality from a person, especially someone that had so much verve.

My father’s strength will live on in us and his spirit will not be forgotten…

Soliciting Story Submissions!

This is an "all call" to any interested people/parties! My dad's sisters, Linda and Diana, have given me the idea to create a memory book of stories for my dad. Kelliann reinforced this idea today when she shared a moment she had with my dad a short time ago. She was visiting and he wrote asking her if she was short on time, and since she wasn't, he asked her to tell him a story. Out of all the things in his world right now, I think this gives him the most pleasure - listening to stories of our lives and, as Diana and Linda were recalling, life experiences we've shared with him.

So, if you have any thoughts, ideas, or full-blown stories - happy, sad, funny, etc. - we'd love to have them sent here to make a book to read to him. Please email them to me at jessit3@gmail.com or if you'd prefer to write something by hand, you can drop them by the Bishop house or snail mail them to me at:
Jessica Tyerman
5750 W.Centinela Ave. Apt. 124
Los Angeles, CA 90045

We look forward to your "submissions"!