REMEMBERING MY MOTHER IN-LAW

Just a few nights ago, me and my husband talked about his mom because it was her 14th death anniversary, January 21, 1994 when my mother-inlaw passed away due to frigid temperatures, it was a tragic death. Her frozen body was found by the front steps of our home, near a morning newspaper with huge headlines proclaiming, " I Was Ready To Die". She died from exposure after falling outside the house while feeding birds, estimate that she lay in the bitter cold for 90 minutes while my husband and his brother we're asleep inside the house. The temperature that time was near 20 below zero and windchill about 60 below. She walked out from the front door to fill a bird feeder about 20 feet away. Although she loves birds and had many bird books, she didn't routinely fill the feeder. That job usually was done by my brother in-law, Steven. Somehow, she fell near the feeder, leaving a bucket of feed in the snow. She managed to drag herself back to the front step, where she died. She was apparently the first Twin Cities victim due to severe cold spell, which was killed more than 100 people nationwide that time, according to my husband. But prior to her death she had been ailing and forgetful in recent years, the result of injuries from auto accident that killed her husband. Her husband died and she was severely injured in a car accident, she hit the windshield at 50 miles an hour and lived but was in a coma for two weeks. My mom-inlaw, Marjorie Lagerwall studied Harp at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, she was widely known as a harpist in the religious community and had played on several gospel recordings produced by Soul's Harbor the television and radio ministry of Calvary Temple. This was her love, She played at weddings, funerals and special events all over the city. Once she was in the recording studio when songwriter & artist Cat Stevens needed a harpist. She played for his Sweet Jamaica the Izitso album, Cat Stevens sent her a copy of the song album, but it turned out that her music not in the final mix of the song. After the auto accident, her hands didn't works so well, she was unable to play the harp till her last breath. Now, she is resting in peace together with her loving husband "Bud". Hubby told me his folks were very much Bible-beleiving Christians. He said the he beleived the newspaper headline about the California Earthquake saying " I Was Ready To Die", was a message. Whoa, there is something beyond this world.