Write your eulogy
The 500 Words
I’m not stranger to someone writing their own obituary,
that’s what my grandmother did in preparation for her funeral. As for writing
my eulogy, it was an assignment in my leadership class earlier this
semester. So, here goes:
Lindsey L. Larsen was born on December 8, 1989, the first
and only daughter of Ron and Connie Larsen. As the oldest child with two
brothers, she was born to be a leader. Throughout her childhood she encountered
many people who thought she was adorably bossy; if they didn’t think she was
bossy, they were insecure that a child had more ambition and organizational
skills than they did.
She loved school; she was born to absorb knowledge, be it in
school or reading books for fun. She could’ve been the modern-day, blonde
version of Belle form Beauty and the Beast. Her love for books was immense as
she continued through high school. Eventually her love for reading switched to
writing as she began writing multiple stories based off of her friends and the
experiences she was currently having.
She graduated from the University of Utah in 2011, a year
earlier than expected, and then headed out to DC for her next adventure. She
began her graduate work at Westminster College in the fall of 2014, and
obtained her MA in early 2016.
She continued to build on her love for education by working
at nearly every university in the state of Utah. Following her marriage to a
man the has yet to reveal his name or the story of how they met, she decided it
was time to start making the changes in public education for that her future
children could reap the benefits.
She began the long process of changes the paradigm of public
education spending so that the budgets for low-income school were robust enough
to compete academically with the other school in the higher-income
neighborhoods. She was successful in her educational endeavors, and realized
that she had achieved her dream of making a budgetary difference.
She went on to have four children; a daughter named
Jean-Grey, and three sons named Boston, Parker, and Christopher. While raising
her children, she turned her efforts back to her first love, writing. She published
two children’s book series about the adventures of her children, and finally
started publishing her novels geared toward young professionals, a genre she
coined as Twenty-Something Fiction. When her youngest child started school, she
decided to go back to work and began establishing herself within the school
district.
She was determined to teach her children that they could do
anything if they worked hard enough and gave themselves opportunities. After
taking over the school board and seeing all of her kids off to college, she and
her husband began traveling the world. She was finally able to cross all of her
travel destinations off of her bucket list. She died peacefully in the company
of her granddaughter Rachel shortly after her 98th birthday during a
stay in the hospital.
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