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Hannah in the Prairie Dog Village by Sandra Dodd and Holly, her lovely assistant September 21, 2006
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Hannah Lea Jenner left this life peacefully, in her mother's arms, early on February 24, 2006. She was 9.5 years old and had a smile on her face, as she so often did. Chemotherapy had just begun for her recently diagnosed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, but infection too quickly claimed her body. Hannah was a life long learner for whom all experiences came with joy and love. Survivors, grateful for having loved her, are her mother, Diana (Lambert) Jenner; her brother, Hayden Jenner; her grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and countless friends-who-should-be-family. She is embraced on the other side by her father, Mitch Jenner, and others who have gone before her. In lieu of flowers, the family requests outpourings of love and tender regard to every child, and gratitude on the part of parents of living children everywhere. |
 Hannah in May 2005 Click for four other sets of photos of Hannah with family and friends. |
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On September 21, 2006, Holly and I took the Hannah remains with which we had been entrusted, put them in a little mixing bowl, and stirred in salt. We cut wedges of watermelon and dipped each in.
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Here's a little movie so that you can see the prairie dogs move and hear what they sound like. Holly is operating the camera, and the images are low quality, but the sound of prairie dogs is good. The whooshing sound is of nearby cars, and an airplane. The voices (we meant not to speak) are me saying "Right in front of you" and Holly saying "Yeah." Sorry it looks like the ground is moving. It really wasn't. Just the prairie dogs. The part with the trees, where Hannah's sitting in the photos way above, was just behind us at the movie moment. They live all around under the trees and up on the flats too. The prairie dog town is along a bike trail on the east side of Albuquerque. |
⇐Hannah by JinnySome other places Hannah's have gone are shown above, and by clicking the title you can go to the blog and comment if you want to. Additional Hannah-homes (with links to where I found the information):BUT WAIT! Diana made a blog later which might have all of these and also has more: https://hannahsashes.blogspot.com/ Okay. Go ahead:
Australia, Victoria Falls in Zambia/Zimbabwe, a playground in Iowa
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| Behind Holly are the miniature golf courses at Hinkle Family Fun, which has the arcade with the drum game some of the Live and Learn kids went to play during the conference a couple of weeks ago, so if you were one of those kids, you were right near the prairie dogs, but they were asleep. |
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More photos of Hannah Hannah's mom's blog and another one Other people's similar immortality
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The last time Hannah visited us in Albuquerque, we went to see the prairie dogs at Indian School and Tramway, a few miles from our house. That time, Hannah was too big to fit down the holes. It was spring and the prairie dogs were scrawny and hungry.
