My sister -in-law Evelyn Ruggieri has passed away

AI Overview Learn more My sister in law , Evelyn , wife of my deceased older brother Richard Ruggieri, passed away last week and was buried at St. Ann's Cemetery in Cranston - free at last from cruel dementia . All the RIP friends and relatives at this Catholic cemetery( mentioned by my brother John in his graveside speech ) were a big part of the very fabric of our lives. RIP Evelyn. We remember all the good and all the happy days of our lives together : Recall the poem " For Whom The Bell Tolls " ? [AI Overview Learn more … [ "The poem For Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne is about how the death of one person affects us all because we are all part of humanity: Meaning The poem's meaning is that the tolling of a church bell for a person's death is a toll for all of us because we are all connected. The line "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" suggests that the bell will toll for each of us because we will all die. " ] NOTE : My brother John had a creative memoriam display on a table at the graveside . Evelyn was buried with my " forever big brother " Rick. One of brother John's items on that table struck me as unusually eerie even for a graveside ceremony : it was a black now antique home dial- phone. But the phone number on it was HO 1-5807 - our family phone number for years at 315 California Ave. in the Washington Park neighborhood of Providence , Rhode Island. Johnny said that I had a call . For a moment I thought that old phone was somehow really connected. " Talk to Pop " , Johnny said . I recall this was an idea I had for one of my mini-horror stories. I will check. Happily Pop's spirit speaks to me always as " The Eternal Optimist ". In troubled times : " This too will pass ! " …