One of my four daughters drove me to Ohio yesterday for my 84-year old sister's funeral. Two of my other daughters joined us plus one son-in-law. (One of them had taken me to Ohio in March to see my sister one last time before she passed away.) My 88-year old, wheel-chair bound sister was also there. Both sisters have very large families and many of them were there as well. (They both have great-grandchildren in the same age range, infant to 14 years old, as my six grandchildren.) We got there in time for the wake, and the funeral was today. Then we drove home; daughters jobs prevented us from staying longer.
To make it worse, the husband (he's 65) of my niece (daughter of my sister who died) is in the terminal stage of advanced cancer. I expect to be going back to Ohio in the near future.