Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26 Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26

It's Not Too Late: Holding a Memorial Years After a Pandemic Loss

Name: Grieving My Parents by Finishing My Mom's Children's Book
Uploaded: 2026-10-11T15:48:12+00:00
Description: Kelsey Lizee Cecil on losing both parents and publishing Rally Takes the Train, the children's book her mom always wanted to write.

It's not too late. A memorial service years later is a real goodbye, and plenty of families are holding one now for a parent who died during the pandemic, when gathering was hard or impossible. It can be a backyard lunch, a big celebration of life or one quiet ritual, as long as it gives the people who loved them a chance to remember together.