Obituary Draft Session — Florina Elizabeth Burton
✨ Participants reviewed and edited an obituary draft for Florina Elizabeth Burton, consolidating core facts (dates, family, education, work, church) and agreeing on phrasing for several items. They identified gaps (employment years, church details, residence timeline) and assigned verification tasks and next steps for finalizing the obituary and funeral logistics.
Decisions
🤝 State that Florina was educated in the Detroit public school system. 💭 Use 'employed by the Detroit Board of Education for 25+ years' as placeholder phrasing pending verification. 💭 Mention membership at People's United Methodist Church for 20+ years as the preferred phrasing, subject to confirmation. 💭 Record place of death as passing at home in Southfield, Michigan (to be confirmed).
Finalize the obituary's opening, core biographical facts, and structure.
Participants reviewed a draft obituary for Florina Elizabeth Burton that lists her full name, birth and death dates (November 15, 1931 — June 8, 2026), birthplace (Miami), early life in Nassau, relocation to Detroit in 1944, marriage to Grant Raymond Burton, Jr., and surviving family. The group confirmed inclusion of early life and education (Detroit public school system), family paragraph, and the request to mention place of death as home in Southfield/Detroit area. They iterated on sentence placement, transitions between early life and education, and agreed to weave atomic notes into coherent paragraphs.
💡 Draft contains complete family list and dates; needs polishing for flow. ⚡️ Place of death should specify passed at home in Southfield, Michigan. 🤝 Atomic notes will be woven into final paragraphs by AI/editor.
Clarify years and phrasing for Florina's education and employment history with Detroit public schools.
Attendees agreed to state that Florina was educated in the Detroit public school system and that she was employed by the Detroit Board of Education (Detroit public schools) for '25 plus years' or '20 plus years' depending on verification. There was discussion about the start year (late 1960s to early 1970s) and stop year (late 1980s to 1990s) with references to family birthdates used to estimate timelines. The group suggested using rounded phrasing (e.g., '25+ years') in the obituary to avoid incorrect specifics until verified.
📍 Use 'educated in the Detroit public school system' as stated. 🚩 Employment years are uncertain; use '25+ years' with verification.
Decide how to represent church affiliation and years of membership.
The team discussed representing Florina's religious life, suggesting phrasing like 'a member of People's United Methodist Church for 20+ years.' They flagged uncertainty about which church or whether 'Metropolitan' or 'People's' should be used; the consensus was to state a safe, rounded duration (20+ years) and the church name 'People's United Methodist' as currently preferred but to verify with family or records. There was also discussion about honoring her lifelong civic ties and possibly requesting a school board plaque at the funeral.
🤝 Preferred phrasing: 'member of People's United Methodist Church for 20+ years'. 🚩 Church affiliation needs verification to avoid errors.
Work on personal anecdotes, preferred nicknames, and the tone (formal vs. personal) for the obituary.
Attendees debated adding personal flourishings such as hobbies, traits, and nicknames. Suggestions included noting that she was widely known and loved ('everybody knows her') and considering but ultimately rejecting the phrase 'passionately known as Flo.' The group recommended adding a short section of personal anecdotes or characteristics to humanize the obituary while respecting family preferences about content.
🙋♂️ Add a short personal paragraph with anecdotes and characteristics. 📍 Nickname suggestions were discussed but not finalized.
Identify verification steps, document approval, funeral timing, and potential honors from institutions.
The meeting closed with action items around verification of dates and affiliations, finalizing the obituary text, coordinating funeral logistics (time of events, location, and the possibility of requesting a plaque from the Detroit Board of Education), and ensuring the draft is approved by family members. There was also a reminder to capture atomic notes and allow the AI/editor to weave them together into final prose.
🚩 Several factual gaps remain and require verification before final publication. ⚡️ Suggested requesting a recognition plaque from the school board at the funeral.
Key Topics
- Core obituary facts & draft structure
- Employment & education details
- Church membership & community ties
- Personal touches and tone
- Logistics & next steps
Action Items
- Finalize obituary opening paragraph
Integrate early life, relocation to Detroit, and education into a concise opening paragraph that flows into employment and family sections.
- Verify employment dates
Confirm exact years of employment with the Detroit Board of Education (start and end year) and whether her role was as a paraprofessional or other title.
- Confirm church affiliation
Verify the correct church name and the length of membership so the obituary can state it accurately.
- Collect personal anecdotes
Gather 2–3 short anecdotes or descriptive phrases from family to include as personal flourishes in the obituary.
- Finalize and approve obituary
Incorporate verified facts and family-approved personal anecdotes, then circulate the final obituary for approval and submission to the funeral home/newspaper.
- Request school board recognition
Contact the Detroit Board of Education to inquire about a plaque or recognition for lifelong service and determine lead time for the funeral.
- Confirm place of death/residence
Verify whether obituary should state she passed away in Detroit or at home in Southfield, Michigan, and confirm length of residence in Southfield.
- Validate family names and survivors
Double-check spellings and relationships of surviving children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren listed in the draft.
Transcript
Tony Cu Anderson (0:00): Well, if you my age, then ask…
Tony Cu Anderson (0:04): No, just give me a rough… What you say, 30 years?
Tony Cu Anderson (0:08): No, not 73, like 72, 71.
Tony Cu Anderson (0:14): Remember, she was a buffet. I know that, but she worked in the school first.
Tony Cu Anderson (0:23): Okay, but I…
Tony Cu Anderson (0:30): I'm trying to you So, if he's 64… They think that she went inside, and that's where he helped out.
Tony Cu Anderson (0:40): Okay. So, that would have been in, like, 71, 72. Okay, all right. Okay. And then… She was, yeah, she, she was already, like I said… Okay, so it was in 70 or 71.
Tony Cu Anderson (1:03): Okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (1:05): So how long you saying when did she stop working? Has she did she work there in 25 years?
Tony Cu Anderson (1:18): She thinks she stopped in the 90s, but she didn't stop in the 90s, I want to say, she stopped in… maybe 88, 89. So, because Kyle, because Kyle was born in 87. So that was…
Tony Cu Anderson (1:39): I got another question for you, Stacy. Um, can you, are you there? Oh, no, no, you were, you also had an issue about the, you didn't know about the church, for church family. Definitely won't know. And then also… 25 plus years at Metropolitan. Oh, at United… We'll say 20 plus years at People's United Methodist. Yeah, but she she went to church for years though, right?
Tony Cu Anderson (2:08): Yeah. She went to church. for years, but it wasn't always. Right, right, right. So no, because usually in obituary, people's like, and she gave her life over to the Lord at a young age or and then she ended her, uh, at people, whatever this church is or something like that. I would just say she was a member of People's United Methodist Church for 20 plus years. That's how I would put it, the same with the education.
Tony Cu Anderson (2:36): I mean, not the education, but her work and the work is 25 plus years until in Detroit public school system.
Unknown (2:41): It's 4 o'clock.
Tony Cu Anderson (2:44): Yeah, because look, Stacy had his his thing wrong.
Tony Cu Anderson (2:49): He start, say she was born in 62, right? Yes. Okay. He was born in 62. Six years, that's 68. Mm.
Tony Cu Anderson (3:01): That's 68. Mm hmm. When she started.
Tony Cu Anderson (3:07): Hello?
Tony Cu Anderson (3:16): all day, get the same room, get the tech room somewhere because we can, not change, uh, in the drawer. Okay, it's no big deal. It's just something that they always list on an obituary when she worked and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-uh. No.
Tony Cu Anderson (3:38): Uh huh. Detroit. Detroit, we'll just say Detroit Board of Education. I know, I did. At the 16, at the 68.
Tony Cu Anderson (3:47): Okay. Oh, okay, all right.
Tony Cu Anderson (3:51): No, you wasn't in the 5th and the 4th grade because she went just okay. So when she got in the 1st grade, she went to school.
Tony Cu Anderson (3:59): She started working. So that would be 68, but we'll just say 69.
Tony Cu Anderson (4:08): She started working in the early 70s. I'm gonna say the 70s said 69.
Tony Cu Anderson (4:15): So she started working in the 70s, uh, and she had a 10 year at the Detroit Publix. School, yeah, Detroit public school system, or not the Detroit Board of Education. Her educ- she was educated in the Detroit public school system. Right? Yes.
Tony Cu Anderson (4:39): And then was employed by the Detroit Board of Education for 25 plus years. Because I know she was, I think she was… I think she was…
Tony Cu Anderson (4:59): No, stay. Yeah, just. And it's it's recording it too. So like what you guys are capturing is also… Move that stuff out that chair, Tony, you could… I don't need to sit. Oh, okay, you will in a minute. All right. You need the light? Yes. So… Right, so let's so the, let's work on the things we need to get at, uh, just a few things you want to add. Um, that's some, that's a stupid thing. It's so light.
Tony Cu Anderson (5:34): Well, here, here, your pants.
Tony Cu Anderson (5:36): Is that, oh, this is red. Yeah. All right, so educated in the Detroit public school system. Okay, so we need to, okay, so before she was a devoted wife, put another paragraph here. Say it again?
Tony Cu Anderson (5:51): Let me see.
Tony Cu Anderson (5:53): Uh, Bahama, she relocated with her family, she Detroit, and okay, so before you even get there. So there's, there are, what, 3 months? The school land. Right. You need to put her early life. She was educated.
Tony Cu Anderson (6:10): So there are 3 apps, there's education, uh, shorthand is, uh, Detroit public schools.
Tony Cu Anderson (6:21): Camera, that's moving too fast. Where are the notes?
Tony Cu Anderson (6:32): Yes.
Tony Cu Anderson (6:33): Uh, education. Uh, DPS, um, school, no, work, uh, DPS board, uh,
Tony Cu Anderson (6:47): You could just leave DPS out and just put water, put okay, go on. Yeah, and then like we said, church live.
Tony Cu Anderson (6:55): And there was people's… Yes, the right… Um, what else?
Tony Cu Anderson (7:07): Okay, so now the details. So that, you know, so that's the gap, and then the, what's the details? Like, exactly how you like Bork decide.
Tony Cu Anderson (7:18): So I think the 1st paragraph.
Tony Cu Anderson (7:22): She spent her youth in NASA, where she live with her and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then she relocated with her family to Detroit. City.
Tony Cu Anderson (7:38): Maybe, maybe, a period there, and then she was educated in some cold water refrigerator. She was educated in the Detroit public school system, and she then you can transition as she worked, and and in later years, was employed by Detroit public school, whatever. Oh, um, also, in the beginning of the um, a bit, we have to substitute where she passed away, she passed away at home, um, in uh, Detroit, in Southfield, Michigan. I think I feel like the board, you guys should get a, a council, a plaque from them, like a, it's when it's the funeral, when's it? We could turn around. They can do a lifelong, lifelong, she was a lifelong resident.
Tony Cu Anderson (8:30): 40, 50 years, 40 years? 76? Yeah, but when did they move to when did they move to South Africa? 50 years this year. Of what? And living in South Bay.
Tony Cu Anderson (8:41): That's when the Jews are still there.
Tony Cu Anderson (8:44): They still are there.
Tony Cu Anderson (8:51): Okay, so… Um… She relocated with her family to Detroit, Michigan, where she was educated in the Detroit public school system. Got it.
Tony Cu Anderson (9:09): We got that.
Tony Cu Anderson (9:13): What, what, what is what is that?
Tony Cu Anderson (9:16): Um, uh, I was trying to just like add it in there. So anytime you want to add, I'm just add a note, quick note at the very bottom in the book. And then you just hit app.
Tony Cu Anderson (9:27): Okay, I changed the color on it.
Tony Cu Anderson (9:30): Or you can use a… And of course, it doesn't work either.
Tony Cu Anderson (9:42): That's cool.
Tony Cu Anderson (9:51): All right, so I think what we're missing is, um, we need to do a personal, now we need personal flourishings. That is to say, um, what are the things that she'd enjoy doing? Um,
Tony Cu Anderson (10:07): But she didn't want that on the obituary.
Tony Cu Anderson (10:11): What are the things that she was known to do? No, I think we need to, uh, add in somehow, um, that shoe. I never knew Earth for Rina.
Tony Cu Anderson (10:26): Everybody know her. Slow. So, I mean, I think that is… Up there at the top. Um, when you say her name, you could say something like, um, passionately known as Flo. No. Yes, yes.
Tony Cu Anderson (10:48): Okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (10:59): OK, kind of green. It's the green pink on there. Oh, yes, we got that. All right, Tony. So I don't know how to add this in there. Okay, she was educated in the Detroit public school system that needs to go up after, so they're just, so, the AI is gonna take each of these notes. and then weave it in. So it's just little bullets. They're called atomic notes. So… Did you put where she was, um, later employed by? Like the moment is, or 25 plus years.
Tony Cu Anderson (11:45): Where are you going? Um, Kevin's annual uh, gala, um, is tonight at 6 o'clock, and I… I thought you said what I said. Are you sure of the time you're supposed to be? No, yeah, I'm… Come to think of it, maybe he's giving me the CP the CP time. Yeah, he is, because, you know, you ask always, like, later employed by the Detroit Board of Education.
Tony Cu Anderson (12:18): But as a pair of professional.
Tony Cu Anderson (12:23): one of the first.
Tony Cu Anderson (12:24): Para. P A R A N Professional.
Tony Cu Anderson (12:35): You may have noticed that we kind of sidestepped the, um, We kind of sidestep your deceased siblings. And the idea there was to say like, you know, 25 plus years or 30 plus years. That she, you know, that she's raised, that she raised, she and her husband raised her children, and… I see that, it's our, it's in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm saying is that's how we were able to get around the… So we got to put the, we got to put us in order too, because there's a paragraph down there where, where, uh,
Tony Cu Anderson (13:21): I find that annoying in the whole proceeded. I mean, though. Yeah, I mean, I get it. You pass away, but the point is that you were a part of this person's life and like, who cares if they die? They're good.
Tony Cu Anderson (13:34): Everybody there, were you? Right. That's just, it's no, it's no. Oh, no, that's.
Tony Cu Anderson (13:46): I don't know, but it's materially important. is what I'm saying.
Tony Cu Anderson (13:54): Sure, I guess it's.
Tony Cu Anderson (13:57): This, you got an unplug. You're going over there, unplug the, um, Unplug the, um, microwave, then you can plug it up over here.
Tony Cu Anderson (14:10): I don't know why these 2 plugs don't work. You hurt me.
Tony Cu Anderson (14:15): Florina, affectionately referred to as flow. Is that how you want it?
Tony Cu Anderson (14:22): Or just affectionately known as, I don't think I even spelled affectionately, right. No, no, that's that's even the best part is that no one cares for spelling anymore. They figure it out.
Tony Cu Anderson (14:37): It's not pretty enough.
Tony Cu Anderson (14:39): Oh, this is the one that you
Tony Cu Anderson (14:42): Yeah.
Tony Cu Anderson (14:45): You can move that pan out there. Just more but anyway. Yeah. Oh, I see.
Tony Cu Anderson (14:52): You need a three prong.
Tony Cu Anderson (15:00): Okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (15:29): They go up there, but I gotta, um, just set it down. Set it on the floor.
Tony Cu Anderson (15:44): I'm so sick of that box. You can put that box right there on the… You could take, you can have them. They're honey nuts? Yeah, you can have them, Tommy. Don forget them. Don't put them down there, don't forget them. I'll put them in the car. I'll go and buy some milk now.
Tony Cu Anderson (16:00): Get those honey nuts, chili, though. some of my favorite.
Tony Cu Anderson (16:05): Oh, there are actually honey punches of oats.
Tony Cu Anderson (16:19): You have to transition into her meeting the love of her life, which was grant, she love that damn man. She ain't love nobody. She loved she loved Grant. and Leola loved Eugene. Yes, she did.
Tony Cu Anderson (16:34): And we indicated that.
Tony Cu Anderson (16:37): Everybody knew that, believe me.
Tony Cu Anderson (16:42): Because many would have let him go a long time ago. Oh, yeah, I used to. Tell my mother, how about a divorce grant? Long time ago, 5 kids at all.
Tony Cu Anderson (16:55): Okay, so what else where are we at?
Tony Cu Anderson (17:00): Later employed by the Detroit Board of Education as a paraprofessional for 25 plus years? Okay. Can we stick in her little hobbies? Like, she left the garden. She left the garden and… do things around the house. What do they call it? Um, do.
Tony Cu Anderson (17:24): Not chores, but, um, DIYs, what would that do? DIYs around the house? Before there, no?
Tony Cu Anderson (17:38): Yeah, what were they before they worked, yeah?
Tony Cu Anderson (17:48): I just gotta, I'm concerned that this signal lost.
Tony Cu Anderson (17:52): I love doing projects in our home. We would come home from school and she have a whole bedroom panel.
Tony Cu Anderson (18:01): put down the kitchen floor.
Tony Cu Anderson (18:07): Sounds like my mother. Sounds like you know. I ain't never painted no damn one. Um, what happened to the band? This ain't worth them.
Tony Cu Anderson (18:20): I'm sure that's a rhetorical question. Tony… No, it's not, there is. Okay, we're back. I just wanted you to.
Tony Cu Anderson (18:32): Let's just put this in and get it moving.
Tony Cu Anderson (18:34): Tell me about it, mommy. What do you think we're doing?
Tony Cu Anderson (18:42): .
Tony Cu Anderson (18:56): Hello?
Tony Cu Anderson (18:57): Um, and so I got the, I guess I should do this. I'm gonna make this. Increase volume.
Tony Cu Anderson (19:15): I have a doctor appointment today at a funeral at 3 o'clock. What? I have a doctor's appointment that they have a funeral at 3 o'clock. I'm going to go, but I'm going to come back because If I cancel, I can't get into the end of September, October.
Tony Cu Anderson (19:29): That's crazy. Oh, God, I said, yeah, I got an appointment coming up, but I don't have it on my calendar because I had made this 3 months ago. I'm like, 3 months.
Tony Cu Anderson (19:38): I'm like, oh, I didn't write it down. I'll call Mark.
Tony Cu Anderson (19:45): I'm like, when is her next one? She's like, September. I like September.
Tony Cu Anderson (19:50): .
Tony Cu Anderson (19:54): My OGYN, she didn't just dropped off the planet now. Yeah. Trump center, huh? Oh, no. Trump got a lot of people running. Told you my cousin, Sammy moved to Panama. Yeah? Left the country. So this house in Atlanta and left. That makes some good… Is it what?
Tony Cu Anderson (20:18): Really? Why would you do it? Why else would you do it? He said Trump ran him away.
Tony Cu Anderson (20:29): He old, older now. A lot of his homeing is out of him. And his chicken was supposed to marry. I don't know what happened with that. And I know he lost a couple of his toes on his feet.
Tony Cu Anderson (20:40): And he got problems with his eyesight. So he about this…
Tony Cu Anderson (20:45): Probably. Uncle Sam had it really bad. don't know. Well, he moved in towers and he losing his… Well, I know the toe thing came from something with basketball.
Tony Cu Anderson (20:56): He did something. And he probably is. I don't know. I don't know the potatoes. And he losing his life. That's a diabetic thing. It is.
Tony Cu Anderson (21:06): Of course it might not.
Tony Cu Anderson (21:09): Might not last long, but because, um, Auntie Amber wouldn't grind for like 3 months. When they came back. And then they came back. Okay, um, we also need to add in that, um, she, she was a lifelong resident, uh, for 50 years, um, Southfield, Michigan. Oh, city of Southville, Michigan, uh, that should be changed in the front. Just because she were exacted in South Korea for 50 years. No, so the point of me saying is, like, I wanted, like, plumb up her civic engagement side. So… First it should be her birth. Okay. And then the next paragraph should be when she met Grant got married, had her kids. Blah, blah, blah. No, she got my… Do you have those obituaries in your car? Yeah, let me go get it. Because what happened was the order of they give you an outline of how the literary is, and I think it got mixed up in your, with your big girl.
Tony Cu Anderson (23:29): You want me to lock this door now, Cam? Yeah. So it's asking us to verify the place of death residents before, yeah, yeah, that's…
Tony Cu Anderson (23:44): Oh, I just bought you some bags, okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (24:00): So you said, what was it back there?
Tony Cu Anderson (24:04): It's sort of like that, but it.
Tony Cu Anderson (24:16): Oh, my, who is that?
Tony Cu Anderson (24:21): Mr. Luca. All right, fish.
Tony Cu Anderson (24:25): Bruce's mother.
Tony Cu Anderson (24:27): My cousin Gary. Oh, it's hard.
Tony Cu Anderson (24:32): Mama Jane husband.
Tony Cu Anderson (24:35): Okay, so. Oh, yeah, so we, I guess we need, um, personal antidote and, uh, nicknames. We got that, that her personal, her nickname was F, L-O, Flow. Um, it's asked about um, an opening paragraph. No, no, no. Tell me. See that 2nd paragraph that starts with my father. He was, um… The greatest service was his, yeah, I took a picture of that. That's what you could put that whole paragraph. That's what change it. No, no, no. So that is what, um, what is that called? It generated this whole thing. Okay. It's already done. already added. What else? Oh, so yeah, and it's also a real, like it caught them. was like, it kept referring to Flo as him and her and his laughter. I was like, yeah, that's because we just tasted crappy time. Um, My friend Willie.
Tony Cu Anderson (25:33): Oh, I think, oh, yes. Please add to the, um, Her husband passed away on June.
Tony Cu Anderson (25:45): Well, you don't have to put the data his back. Okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (25:50): preceding him and yeah. Is this what we were saying? No, that's not it. Is this Tony's? This must be Tony. It looks sort of like, it's long like this. Okay. Yeah. It might not be in there. I don't know where it is, but… What's his name? His mother. Yeah, this is some of Tony stuff. Um, I wonder, do you guys have the photos? Does she keep photos of her 94 years? We got those at my mother's house. Yeah, no, I say that because… All her photos are…
Tony Cu Anderson (26:25): It's been that long.
Tony Cu Anderson (26:26): My friend Lisa. Charles killed her. Yeah, of course. Uncle Robert, he laughing, 03. Oh wow.
Tony Cu Anderson (26:38): His daughter.
Tony Cu Anderson (26:39): Is that our church? Her name is Millicent. Oh, in his obituary is just every group he was ever part of. That all. Mm-hmm.
Tony Cu Anderson (26:50): His daughter.
Tony Cu Anderson (26:55): She hugged me and she said.
Tony Cu Anderson (26:58): Cat. Pancreatic.
Tony Cu Anderson (27:04): That's that's gonna bleed over into this, and she's just gonna say, oh, she died pancreatic. Oh, I'm sorry.
Tony Cu Anderson (27:14): Cheryl's grandmother.
Tony Cu Anderson (27:33): Confirm a correct church name in years at People's United Methodist proposed.
Tony Cu Anderson (27:45): Outstanding, confirm start in years in job title, prepare professional versus other. Well, okay, no, she was a pair professional and she worked with the bus. Yeah, put on it. Yeah, you can pass it. No, no. So what I did was give me an update and that's just what they were kicking out. But she don't want all that in here, Tony. She just want to give it the time that she worked there and then just move on. You're trying to make it. Well, we don't, I mean, so it doesn't have the years, though.
Tony Cu Anderson (28:19): That's what they said, 20 plus 25 plus years. We ain't got to get, is this it? Nobody knows the exact fact. Yeah
Tony Cu Anderson (28:29): Because no one knows.
Tony Cu Anderson (28:31): Who is this count?
Tony Cu Anderson (28:34): Keisha Fang. His last name was Starlings? Oh, dumb.
Tony Cu Anderson (28:43): Somebody special. I don't think she understands how the name work thing. I got y'all was married. Dang. Wow.
Tony Cu Anderson (28:52): Oh, Jesus. Mama, yeah, that's my mama. Chester's mother.
Tony Cu Anderson (28:58): Okay, so is there, other than that, this exercise, my, um, what else would you?
Tony Cu Anderson (29:07): Okay, so, when you list the kids,
Tony Cu Anderson (29:20): Oh, so the request is to reorder.
Tony Cu Anderson (29:24): Let me see.
Tony Cu Anderson (29:29): Her grandchildren.
Tony Cu Anderson (29:41): Oh, up here, together, oh, up here, together, they raised five children, Anthony, Kim, they should be, and great.
Tony Cu Anderson (29:57): You gotta switch that around, it should be Anthony, Timothy, Grant, Tim and Stacy.
Tony Cu Anderson (30:04): Okay, one moment, and this is the order of of birth? Yes. So the eldest is Anthony. Anthony. Anthony. Timothy. Uh, Timothy. Grant.
Tony Cu Anderson (30:17): Grant II.
Tony Cu Anderson (30:20): Why do they call him Clint Jr.? He's my father's junior. But Grant was a junior. Grant Jr. really should have been a third. He is the third. Grant Raymond Jr. the third. A father is Grant Raymond Jr. II. His dad is Grant Raymond Burton.
Tony Cu Anderson (30:42): Don't worry about that. No, no, no. I mean, I just, I just, I guess Greg Jr. No, it's not the point. I'm saying that I've always known your brother, your brother. Your late brothers, Grant Jr. Yeah. Because he's a German. No, he's not. He's a junior took his dad.
Tony Cu Anderson (30:59): And his son is a junior. on. That's not how that word works. We
Tony Cu Anderson (31:06): We get that. We get that.
Tony Cu Anderson (31:08): All right, so you could just put Grant the third. You don't even have to put your in. Yeah, we could do that. Great, three. Uh, recap. Anthony, Timothy…
Tony Cu Anderson (31:24): Okay, then. And Stacy.
Tony Cu Anderson (31:32): S T-A-C-Y? E Y. That's what I thought. I knew it was gonna be. has that up somehow.
Tony Cu Anderson (31:41): Okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (31:46): Where should it go?
Tony Cu Anderson (31:52): I like the way we had did granny's obituary. When she was born, she was the 3rd attention.
Tony Cu Anderson (32:03): She accepted Christ as her personal savior at an early age.
Tony Cu Anderson (32:10): She was joined in horribly matrimony to that grandpa in his union that had two children. The family moved to Detroit. She joined Ebenezer.
Tony Cu Anderson (32:28): Flow enjoyed… Gardening, and you said DY, DY, DY. Okay, I like that.
Tony Cu Anderson (32:39): Ever the. Was she a, was she a society lady with, with, uh, the gardening stuff? No. No. She was on Usher board at church.
Tony Cu Anderson (32:56): Uh, Certain passions, uh, favorite passions, include, gardening. That's that name and Projects. And home remodeling projects. Here.
Tony Cu Anderson (33:12): Projects of. In her home of which she stayed there for 50 years. I like that one. I think that's one way to weave that part in. Okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (33:34): You guys look so pitiful on that picture.
Tony Cu Anderson (33:39): Can we get this? I don't think nobody in that picture smiled, did they? Cynthia did?
Tony Cu Anderson (33:47): It's horrible, like.
Tony Cu Anderson (33:56): Oh, that is good.
Tony Cu Anderson (34:00): Where's that rock?
Tony Cu Anderson (34:05): I don't know what you're talking about. one of my favorite. Favorite. No, that's her father. Bobby's not even in this picture. Okay. Are you not Hawaii?
Tony Cu Anderson (34:21): I mean, at least look here when my mother looks lost. My father's like, nah, Shabana, like the… Granny smiled. My grandfather was like, and bunny was like, hmm.
Tony Cu Anderson (34:34): That's why we put a Bobby, a picture of Bobby there because he wasn't in at the time.
Tony Cu Anderson (34:42): Oh, that's what that means. Got
Tony Cu Anderson (34:47): What is that name? All right, so what else? We have, we did the gardening thing. Um,
Tony Cu Anderson (34:57): smiling.
Tony Cu Anderson (34:59): Hey, Mr. Smiley.
Tony Cu Anderson (35:02): I'm good, how are you?
Tony Cu Anderson (35:06): Okay, over Kim, so, trying to get this obituary together.
Tony Cu Anderson (35:12): Just to say hi, I'm so sorry for your loss. Hello, thank you.
Tony Cu Anderson (35:18): You heard her.
Tony Cu Anderson (35:22): All right, have a good one. Bye.
Tony Cu Anderson (35:29): Okay, I see what they did there. Um, as we're wrapping it up, this is where he, they mentioned his, um, his death in a, did it with his, uh, they tied it to his membership, uh, at church, and it says, and I quote, Grant was a member of Magnolia, United Methodist Church, and then transfer to People's United Methodist Church, where he was a member until he was until his death on May 19th, 2013. So there are 3 things they did there. They, you know, they, they… Who did this one? Who wrote that? Um, they got the they got the… Grant's obituary could be her obituary in some ways. You know what I'm saying? Because some pairs, like one paragraph in there. Because he really didn't go to church, did he? Oh, okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (36:26): So you could say she she went to Magnolia and then transferred to people. but
Tony Cu Anderson (36:32): Yeah, that's what we'll, we'll have, we'll help with that. Okay, we're gonna get through this. What time is it? What time you gonna leave? It's 435. All right. So, uh, let's… get busy.
Tony Cu Anderson (36:48): We're not gonna overthink it, Tony. I'm not overthinking it. I'm not, I'm, it's, I just want to get all the gaps and we can always massage later. That's easy. That's the easy part. Um… Um… No, this person that Alana knows. That's why we gotta get it to her, because we gotta, we gotta get it to her. As soon as possible? Because we need them at least by Tuesday. Right. And I gotta go and get some pictures together.
Tony Cu Anderson (37:20): Whatever your mom's out. Yeah.
Tony Cu Anderson (37:23): I need to do that part.
Tony Cu Anderson (37:27): So the part where she went to church, do it the same way is on my dad. Update. Yes, I'm gonna… Oh, I can't do it when that's… What do you want to eat today? Have you ate anything? Yeah, man, when man, sexy finished, we, um, stopped at Coney Island, and… Flo was a member of mug. Hey, is Magnolia the one across the street? From the…
Tony Cu Anderson (38:01): From Ebenezer? No. It's straight gate. No. New light. Get busy. Where's Magnolia? Magnolia. It's in South. It's in Southfield. on the surface track, the live surface track.
Tony Cu Anderson (38:12): I feel like I can visually see.
Tony Cu Anderson (38:18): South, yeah. Ooh, it's a lot.
Tony Cu Anderson (38:24): Um, well, I don't know that's, I don't know if we're ever gonna be able to do that. Do what? Negotiate our relationship. Um, there comes a time where… Child, an adult child and an adult parent finds the equilibrium where there is a. A mutual understanding or something that goes on, but I don't know. I think that I think there's… When you have kids, you don't have. No, it's not a question of having kids. There's the point of it is that eventually.
Tony Cu Anderson (39:09): That, that's how that is.
Tony Cu Anderson (39:18): UNC, and then, yeah, transferred, to people's, UNC, um, where?
Tony Cu Anderson (39:33): She was a member.
Tony Cu Anderson (39:43): I'm here.
Tony Cu Anderson (39:47): Sk Marks didn't come out. And I locked it. Somebody hit me.
Tony Cu Anderson (39:54): Until… his…
Tony Cu Anderson (40:08): Hey.
Tony Cu Anderson (40:12): I guess it's not.
Tony Cu Anderson (40:18): too outrageous to say this, but she's closer than that. But it's kind of cool how, like, she has 2, like, one foot in a century, and she has, I don't know, another foot. deeply in the century.
Tony Cu Anderson (40:34): Guess what happens when you're 100.
Tony Cu Anderson (40:43): Did, um, did Flo be, did she, um, you said she served on…
Tony Cu Anderson (40:53): Where she was a.
Tony Cu Anderson (40:58): And the women's group?
Tony Cu Anderson (41:01): So we need to bring that up then. Uh.
Tony Cu Anderson (41:07): Okay, Grant was known as… That was no mint by mini.
Tony Cu Anderson (41:14): Grant was known by Minnie, as a kind, um,
Tony Cu Anderson (41:22): Like kind, caring, handsome and charismatic, stylish, intelligent, fun, humorous, strong, thrifty, oh, impassionable man was a commanding presence. A lifelong learner, grant could teach the teacher. He didn't demonstrated richness. His spirit and openly acknowledged his commitment of being guided by the Lord. Okay, yes, I thought that was gonna be something else there. Um, before this sentence, we can, uh, we've in, um, her membership with the women's usher board.
Tony Cu Anderson (41:59): I forgot, which group? Which women's group she was in, because they all had names. I don't, I can't remember which one she was in. That's why I just say the women's group. Is there a way to, I wonder if there's a way to reach out to them? No, of course. We don't have time for all that. Yeah, I mean. You gotta be somewhere in the middle. Yeah. She…
Tony Cu Anderson (42:26): Well, say.
Tony Cu Anderson (42:33): It's called a lifetime. Lifetime. Lifetime life.
Tony Cu Anderson (42:39): Time.
Tony Cu Anderson (42:47): Actually, Boro.
Tony Cu Anderson (42:50): Um.
Tony Cu Anderson (43:25): Hello?
Tony Cu Anderson (43:28): Uh, hello?
Tony Cu Anderson (43:31): Hello?
Tony Cu Anderson (43:35): Hi, this is Erica from United Health.
Tony Cu Anderson (44:22): Okay, yes, how can I spell that properly? Good God, man.
Tony Cu Anderson (44:31): Mag, no, yeah, why does it look weird?
Tony Cu Anderson (44:45): I gotta find somebody to cut my grass. This is killing me.
Tony Cu Anderson (46:34): It's wrong one. It's okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (46:41): Okay. Updated note. Flow served at no…
Tony Cu Anderson (46:47): Okay, what did I say? I said, flows, served as a member of Magnolia, United Methodist Church before transferring to people's United Methodist Church with her husband where she was a dedicated member of the women's usher board and stayed active till… castle.
Tony Cu Anderson (47:12): Hello?
Tony Cu Anderson (47:16): Nothing. Oh, no. She served it.
Tony Cu Anderson (47:31): All right. Bye.
Tony Cu Anderson (47:40): Or they said, a lifetime church member, Flo belong 1st to Magnolia, Church, and later, and Peoples United, where she faithfully served on the women's board until her death, oh, I like that one. Oh, it's much nicer. Good job. Ooh, there's a request that says, do you want to create a, write a poem? No, because you know what? We not gonna have that much room. The more stuff you put in there. Oh, yeah. The more space to take up, the more pages to the obituary, and more money.
Tony Cu Anderson (48:23): And we're walking on the budget.
Tony Cu Anderson (48:25): It's balling on a budget.
Tony Cu Anderson (48:28): We ain't even bawling. It's balling. It's balling. It's balling on a budget. We know. Well, you know.
Tony Cu Anderson (48:37): We know, we know.
Tony Cu Anderson (49:00): Okay.
Tony Cu Anderson (49:05): Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.
Tony Cu Anderson (49:17): Hello?
Tony Cu Anderson (49:24): Uh, goodbye.
Tony Cu Anderson (49:39): Okay, all right. So, um, I think.
Tony Cu Anderson (49:44): Let's ask what are you listening other than, okay. Other than confirming, other than confirming, uh, details. Uh, please.
Tony Cu Anderson (49:58): Um, create a provisional grab or review.
Tony Cu Anderson (50:10): Do not add in flourishments, not do or do not make up things.
Tony Cu Anderson (50:24): Do not add, um, blow up embellishments.
Tony Cu Anderson (50:37): You can find refinement, and dignity, uh…
