Reflection for Nanny’s funeral Monday, January 14, 2013 Thank you all for coming today. My name is Ned Berghausen, and Barbara Cassidy was my grandmother. I am the oldest of her ten grandchildren. I am sure she would have been overjoyed to see you all here today. She always loved and thrived on social occasions, and the more people together, the better. I know she would have especially loved to have seen all her family together. The last time we were all in one place was for her and my grandfather’s 50 th anniversary. Their marriage and relationship was such a strong bond, that we all have all looked to them as an example of married life. As someone who is recently married, I have really come to appreciate their example and witness of a faith-filled marriage. For their 50 th anniversary in 2005, the whole family went on a cruise together. At the time, I was serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bangladesh, and the family all thought that I was the one family member t