Salt Lake City, UT — Yesterday, Heather and I flew down to Utah for Brian’s viewing and funeral. Since we were flying standby, we were lucky to get on the first flight out of Boise because all the other flights that day were oversold. We’re glad we didn’t have to drive down. Heather spent the day preparing all the logistics for the funeral and working on her talk. Then we went early to the church in Sandy to setup the viewing that evening. A lot of people showed up at the viewing and we heard some great stories about Brian that were pretty entertaining.

This morning we had the funeral, again back in Sandy, in the chapel that Heather’s family attended when they lived there. Many people showed up for that as well. Heather spoke along with her sister and other family members and friends. Heather gave a great talk along with everyone else. Some funny stories were told of Brian along with more affirmations of his friendly and caring nature. After the funeral, they had a procession to Loa where Brian was buried. Loa is where most of Heather’s family is from and where dad Hall was buried last year. Heather went down to Loa while I took a flight back to Boise.