Visiting Family in Des Moines, Iowa

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We had a great time visiting my cousin Elaine. She helped us find my grandmothers grave so we could spread my Mom' ashes.	Elaine was so much fun. She is quite good at the computer so we helped with a few things and wonderful time talking about family.	This is a traditional Iowa house - it looks a lot like the homestead my Mom grew up in, although that house was torn down to make some new condos.	It was very hot there but it was a wonderful countryside.	Marilyn loves windmills and there were a lot to choose from.
This is certainly the farm capital of the world. There was farm equipment, barns and silos everywhere.		We only had the name of the town and possibly the cemetery name to look for my grandmother, Lulu Vittum, who died in 1980. We visited one cemetery and found a Vittum but not the right one. Luckily the guy on the lawnmower new of an old rural cemetery that might be the one we were looking for.	It was very interesting wondering the cemeteries of these old farming towns. There were heros from every war going back to the civil war.	We followed lawnmower man's directions 2 miles down a dirt road and then right for another mile down another dirt road and then there it was, the Lincoln Township Cemetery.
I walked into the cemetery and there were over 100 headstones. Marilyn started to lay down a game plan to look at all the headstones to find Grandma's but I said "Nope, its over there" and I walked right up to it. I think Mom helped me find it right away, she knew how hot it was out there.	Grandma and Grandpa were Iowa farmers back in the early 1900s and they would just love to know they are buried amongst thousands of acres of corn. It was a lovely site.	It was a great triumph for our adventure to be able to do this for Mom.	The corn rows were so beautiful.	Each farm was at least a mile from the next farm. Definitely the boonies.
As we drove away the cemetery just blended into the corn fields. What a great resting place for my family.