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Cemetery Location Map to Gravesite |
Birth Date: 4/24/1956
Death Date: 1/6/1976
Washington Park East Cemetery
Section Q, Lot 82, Grave 12, Space 22
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| Penni was an exceptional young lady who was wise beyond her years. Diagnosed with a serious, inoperable lung/heart disease at the age of eight, she was expected to live about five years. However Penni lived almost twelve years, due greatly to her determination. Her pediatric cardiologist encouraged us to treat her as normal as possible. He said, "don't make an invalid of her", we didn't and she didn't, as she later self-diagnosed her condition for a High School English paper. She was talented in art & music. She would have played her cello in her second concert with the Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra the day of her memorial service. She made her funeral arrangements to her mother three weeks before she died and she worked the day she died. She was a wonderful daughter, sister and unknown aunt to her nephews & nieces that have followed. |
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Special photo at the time of the church directory setting taken in December of 1999.
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Eric is about 18 months old in this photo taken around October of 1965.
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Children of the 70's Penni took her brothers & sisters to have this taken for Christmas around November of 1975, shortly before she died. Notice the polyester.
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Becky, Hannah, Jim, Tori, Mitch, Eric, Corri, Pat, Neil, Kyle, Steve, Josh & Sally, taken Easter of 1999. Penni's legacy. The children frequently speak of Aunt Penni, though never knowing her.
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