2020 Tuesday — Hurting Granddaughter

Our granddaughter has two younger half-sisters. After our son and his wife, Desiree’s mom, divorced, eventually Des’s mom remarried and had two more daughters.

One week ago today, Tuesday, August 12th, our granddaughter Desiree learned that her younger sister, Alex, age 20, had died in an automobile accident that day in the Arkansas city where Alex lived.

Desiree’s mom and Desiree’s youngest sister, Cienna, were here in SoCal visiting Desiree when the news of Alex’s death arrived. This past Saturday Desiree and the kids began the 2-night, 3-day drive to Arkansas and arrived Monday afternoon. The memorial service is this coming Saturday.

Here are some words that Desiree has written and posted on her social media about this:

“I never knew what it felt like to truly have a broken heart. Losing my beautiful, God loving, charismatic sister has done it for me. I haven’t responded to a lot of people because I don’t even have the words to express how I feel. People have been so kind and caring but when asked what I need the answer isn’t something anyone can give me. I’m sad that we don’t get more time with Alexandria here on earth. I get angry seeing how the world just keeps spinning and everyone just keeps on going like nothing has happened, because for me and my family, life feels like it just came screeching to a stop. We are all just trying to get through this and go through the motions. I always heard about the stages of grief but I never realized how you could go through many of the stages in minutes and then back through them again. I don’t know if this even makes any sense I’m just trying to put something out there so people understand why I’ve been so short in my responses. I love you all and I appreciate your words and well wishes. Please continue to pray for my family and I. And love on the ones you have while you can. It’s never enough time.”

“My sister Cienna handed me this hat that was one of Alex’s favorites. I’ve never been a hat person, but I sure will be now. Today I’ll get to see her one last time.”


Watching Desiree grieve the death of her little sister is very difficult. We feel almost at a loss to help her. So we pray and ask for God’s peace and grace for Des and the entire family.

Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol