Dora Ann Dunkley Harbin - Memorial Service
Gathering Words: We gather today for several reasons. We come to bid farewell to a loved one who has passed from this life into the next. We gather to support one another in this phase of our shared grief at Dora’s passing. We gather to gain encouragement for ourselves as we face our own mortality, experiencing the death of one we have loved and who has loved us. We gather to join our hearts with one another and seek to better understand the imponderables of life with all its uncertainties. Grief is a strange beast. It attacks each of us differently. Each episode of grief is different, as there is always so much to process and we cannot do that all at once. We have each lost someone different in Dora’s passing. She was mother. She was wife. She was friend. She was grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin, neighbor, coworker, volunteer, nurse, advocate, organizer, choir member, bowling companion, and missionary. We will all miss different aspects of who Dora was according to our i