Holly Matucheski December 25, 1950 - June 3, 2020

Holly Rae Matucheski, RN, BSN

December 25, 1950 - June 3, 2020

Obituary from the Bradley Funeral Home in Antigo, Wisconsin

The photo montage we created for the funeral.

The background music is "Forever Young" by Rod Stewart.

The new Blogger only allows this tiny port hole, so if you want a wider view, try this link.

Here is the link for Holly's funeral service (1 hour :2 min.)

Folder printed by the Bradley Funeral Home.

My Dad picked out eagle theme.

Program for Holly's Funeral Service

Special Song - "Time of my Life" (from Dirty Dancing)

"I've had the time of my life, and I owe it all to you."

Holly said that friends were the most important thing for a woman.

In that respect, this song was meant to be a THANK YOU from Holly

to everyone who made her life as wonderful as it was.

Ashleigh Halverson read "A Letter from My Heart" to Holly,

who inspired her to read and to become a nurse.

Kay Solitto read Holly's Obituary,

adding some of her own commentary and context.

Obituary from The Antigo Times

Betsy Ahner's touching Euology for Holly [pdf].

I asked Bradley if they could set up a Christmas Tree. 

Even though it was June, they were happy to do so.

Since Holly was born on Christmas Day, Christmas time was always filled with light and magic for us.

The Christmas Tree hepled to bring back some of her spirit.

Also on display were some of her quilts:

The Red Canoe

[Carrie Zelazoski talked about teaching the block-of-the-month quilting class

where Holly made this quilt.]

Pine Trees

Not wanting Holly's funeral to be a super-spreader event for Covid-19, those of us who work in health care wore masks.  She was the Public Health Officer for Langlade County for many years!

Michele and cousin Ashleigh.

Even my sister Amanda (top right) in Japan was able to attend via Zoom.

We had a stand set up with an iPad and a sign saying:  "Talk to Amanda in Japan."

She attended about 7 hours via zoom for the visitations and funeral service.

Due to the global pandemic, she was not able to attend the funeral in person as both the US and Japan had travel restrictions.

We picked daisies for the flower spray over the casket.

She had daisies in her wedding bouquet 51 years before.

It was so cold that January, the flowers froze on the way to the church.

From this angle, it kind of looks like her.

Doesn't quite look like her, but here she is ... after a long illness.

High school graduation photo, looking the way she did when Dad first met her.

Also on display was this scrap booking layout made by daughter Amanda Yoshida.

Along with the Wandering Geese quilt Holly made for daughter Michele and Christian.

Holly - Christmas 2018