In Memory of Our Blogger Friend: Carmen San Diego

Mike, Carmen’s husband, has announced that Carmen, whose blog, Good Times and Boxed Whine, brought her friends from around the world, died peacefully at 7:08 in the morning on October 30^th, 2007. She was not in any pain and was asleep with medications. She was 34 years old.

Memorial services will be held for her at the chapel on Naval Submarine Base Point Loma at 10:00 AM on Saturday, November 10th, 2007. A reception will be held at the Harbor Inn (also on the submarine base) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM for the family and closest friends of Carmen.

Mike also writes:

Carmen had requested that that in the event of her death, instead of sending flowers to her funeral, that you donate to the Sceroderma Foundation in her name. Website can be found at:

http://www.scleroderma.org/development/donate.shtm

or phone number at 800-722-4673.

She thought that if you donate, and someday they can find a cure, then one day family and friends won't have to endure these hardships like we all did with Carmen. If you knew Carmen then you know this to be true.

A few days after the funeral, Carmen's ashes will be interned at Roscrans National Cemetary high on the hill overlooking the ocean in San Diego.

Thank you for all your support. The love and support you've shown during this difficult time has been amazing. She has touched many lives, and Dominic and I are awed and grateful to all the support given.

My prayer:

Gracious and faithful God, with faith in your great mercy and wisdom, we entrust Carmen to your eternal care.

We thank you for your steadfast love for her and for all that she was to those who loved her.

We thank you that for Carmen all sickness and sorrow are ended, and death itself is past, and that she has entered the home where all of your people gather in peace.

Be with her husband, Mike, and her son, Dominic, and all of her family in this time of sorrow. Amen