Stephanie here:
It was a beautiful service. For 90 minutes people got up and shared their memories of Shauna. We laughed and we cried, and always remembered Shauna for the strong, multi-faceted person she was.

Her mom told stories from the beginning of her life, using the theme that Shauna was always ahead of her time. At 9 months, she decided to walk and that was that. At 2 and a half, she wanted pretty panties like her older sister, Alana, but mom told her she would have to be potty trained first. So Shauna potty trained herself so she could have pretty panties too. At 3 she was speaking in paragraphs, while most children were trying to string sentences together. We could have done without Shauna being ahead of her time when she died from cancer.

Gamemaster Dan told of their gaming days and how Shauna would let him know that he was taking too long setting things up, “It’s 9PM and I haven’t killed anything yet!”

Pamela talked about a conversation she and Shauna had during which Pamela told her to come back and let her know everything was okay. The night Shauna died, Pamela’s large St. Nicholas, which has never fallen over before, was tipped over making Pamela believe that Shauna had kept her promise.

Debbi talked about being Shauna’s “butt buddy” in Japan and how in her last days, Shauna had still been able to laugh. They made up a list of Letterman like Top 10 things she would say when she got to heaven. #1 on the list was, “What? You mean I got here before Don Cherry?” (Hockey reference.)

Alana, Ron, Michael, Tricia, Vicki, Ashley, Aunt Peggy and a few others whose names I either do not know or have forgotten also spoke. (My apologies.) Craig said the thing he would miss the most was her good parking karma and her voice.

All too soon, it was over and the piper marched down the aisle playing “Amazing Grace.” It was deeply emotional.

The answer to Shauna’s question about how many people would be at her service is, “around 100+.”

Maybe someone who went to the reception can let me know how it was so I can post something here. I didn’t go because it was more than I wanted to take in at the time.