Before and After - Comparing Lucile's Patriarchal Blessing with Reflections when She Died

 Lucile received her patriarchal blessing when she was 42-years of age. She originally was scheduled to receive her patriarchal blessing from her grandfather Ira Hatch in 1936 when she was 26-year-old, but her Hatch grandparents died in a car accident while driving prior to her scheduled appointment.

Lucile's patriarchal blessing highlights her serving in the church, teaching the gospel, and her role as a mother, including:

• Through her firm determination to serve the Lord and accomplish His purposes "much good will come through your unstinted efforts."
• "You have chosen a companion who will go hand and hand with you throughout the endless ages of eternity."
• She "will have the great privilege of uniting with (her children) in the great hereafter."
• "You shall rise with the just on the morning of the resurrection in company of your husband and children."
• "In teaching the gospel ... you will have no trouble in explaining and teaching these truths unto others in an intelligent manner."

She certainly distinguished herself by her "unstinted efforts" as a seminary teacher for 13 years, Stake Relief Society President, Senior Missionary, and serviced in numerous other callings.

Lucile was a remarkable teacher who profoundly influenced dozens of teens who were in her seminary classes as described in The Stories We Tell: Crossing the Frozen Mississippi in Idaho.

I don't want to make too much of the wording in her blessing that "you will have the opportunity of passing through the House of the Lord", but it has a very different interpretation or meaning with her actually passing away there! 

Reading Glesna Grigg's, Dan Robecker's, and my own comments given at her funeral certainly seem to be a fulfillment of her patriarchal blessing given 38 years before.

And without question - she definitely chose "a companion who will go hand and hand with you throughout the endless ages of eternity."