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PGR was asked to escort Russell Nelson to SJNC at Santa Nella for services, and it was an honor. Thanks to Russell's family for inviting us.
I arrived at the staging area in San Jose, Rudy's truck in front of my Sweet Ruby.
At the far end of the scoot line, is Buzz's nice looking scoot, he had just got it back after some work. Lookin' great!
I got to ride tail gunner behind a nice lookin' scoot that I could follow easily.
The group visiting, the guy on the left brought donuts... I spell them do not.. sigh.
He asked me if I wanted in a pic, and I said sure, I'm not in many, wrong side of the camera.
It's time to start the mission and 4 of us were pallbearers.
Walking by the honor flag line.
Getting ready for the journey. Hearse driver watching.
The trip was fairly uneventful, we got to dance with some traffic, but that is normal. Interesting, the family arrives behind us, they saw the escort and just fell in behind us. Very nice for them!
Buzz was turning off some flashers for a rider.
The rest of the line... A family member tried, without success, to get out of the pic.
From the head of the line, Cliff's SUV. We saw his signature on the way into SJNC, the fences were lined with flags, very nice! I don't think he will do it again tho, it was a farmers fence, not SJNC, and he called them to say "get them down!!" Don't know why, but he did relent and let us get them after the mission, glad he did. I stopped with Cliff on the way out and helped him gather his flags.
What the escort looked like going down the road.
You can see the family lining up behind us, as more arrived.
This an interesting pic, look at the flag on top of the hill... Dead sock flag, no wind, and that is unusual for this area, and it was warm also! Had the same thing happen a day before up in SVNC Dixon, no wind, again very unusual
Rest of the cars.
Of course, after a 1.5 hour ride, a trip to the facilities is in order, on the way out I noticed a display with someone sitting on a park bench looking at it, so took a pic.
We head out to the committal shelter and prepare for the service.
The Honor Guard ready and waiting.
No pics of the service, I won't do that without family permission. The family joined us after the service to chat and thank us for Honoring Russell.
The asked the one question we love to hear, "can I have a picture with the group?" Well, ahem, we "forced" ourselves! GBG (Great Big Grin) It was truely an honor and Russell's wife read many great comments during the service. He lived a very Blessed Life!!!
Thank all that rode and ride safe!
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