Remembering Gigi!!!

Today marks one year since our beautiful Gigi began soaring in Heaven!!!
We remember and miss her today and everyday with so much love...

Below reads the eulogy that I wrote and delivered on the day we said "goodbye" to Gigi!!!

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Today we celebrate the Love, the Life, and the Light of Mary Georgina Groves…. also known as our sweet Gigi.
A woman who, just like the saying: Danced Like No One was Watching.

It would be impossible to fully describe the impact of Gigi’s life… we all have our own personal memories to fill our hearts.
I am, however, certain, that each and every one of us in this room can agree that she enriched all of our lives beyond measure.

Gigi had a knack for making everyone feel welcome…, as Grandad has often said, “She never met a stranger”.

With the heart of a Humanitarian, she would welcome anyone and everyone with a genuine smile, a warm hug, and of course…with amazing food!

From homemade spaghetti and meatballs, chicken noodle soup, custard, cherry and apple pies, and who could forget her mouthwatering beef and noodles-our Gigi was THE BEST cook!!
Always the entertainer, Gigi would be bustling about, singing with her beautiful songbird voice, dancing around the kitchen, and making sure that everything was just so…but never once would you feel like she wasn't giving you her undivided attention.

Gigi defined the Quintessential Woman…A full time loving wife, mother and grandmother as well as a brilliant and savvy career gal.
President of Service Supply Limited by day, homemade meals on the table by night. Grandma mastered balancing the scale of running a company and being the cherished matriarch of our family without skipping a beat. Infact, she created the rhythm that is Our Family.

The definition of our Gigi…one word…LOVE!

A love so boundless and abundant…there was always more than enough to go around- and without effort…that was just her way.
Each and every one of the Grandkids were her favorite…

Ali and I have vivid memories of Weekend Tea and Sugar Cookie Breakfasts with Gigi and Grandaddy and Poolside Summers where we’d cuddle up to her warm sun kissed skin as she sang:

“I love you…a bushel and a peck…a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck…”

Over the course of their 64 years, Grandma and Grandaddy have written a beautiful love story…
One of a simplistic depth…
One that has set the bar higher than any poet could comprehend.

Today is bittersweet, as with heavy hearts, we say goodbye to our beautiful Mary: Wife, Friend, Mother, Grandma and Gigi but find fierce joy in knowing that her star shines brightly from the heavens and her spirit remains wrapped around each one of us like a comforting blanket.

Gigi is no longer with all of us in physical presence, yet has returned to her most brilliant form…I like to think she is up in heaven making it even more perfect for the day that we are all reunited

Thank you beautiful Gigi for being EVERYTHING to our family…we cherish and honor the memories that you have given us and we treasure your light that will never stop shining.