Mama June Shannon is opening up about how the household retains Anna’s reminiscence alive.
And there’s a really bodily part to the household’s mourning course of.
It has been one yr for the reason that demise of Mama June’s daughter, Anna Cardwell.
Amidst their grief, the household brings her ashes with them at any time when they depart the home.
Mama June beforehand defined how the household retains Anna with them
Simply over per week forward of the one-year anniversary of Anna Cardwell’s tragic passing, June Shannon mentioned how the household treats her late eldest daughter’s ashes.
Some households scatter ashes in nature — generally, illegally. Different households maintain ashes in funerary urns at dwelling. Sadly, some family members find yourself in unlabeled plastic containers in a cupboard.
As Mama June defined in her Fb put up, she and different household carry Anna’s cremains with them on errands.
Chatting with Folks, Mama June is now elaborating on how the household is treating Anna’s ashes.
“For me, personally, taking her urn everywhere with us, and I’m talking about the whole urn,” she detailed.
“People might think I’m crazy,” June acknowledged. “But we’re talking about the whole urn. We’re not talking about the little baby urn.”
‘We don’t fly with the large urn’
Anna Cardwell’s battle in opposition to stage 4 adrenal carcinoma lasted solely 10 months. She handed away in December of 2023, abandoning her two daughters and grieving household.
“We do all wear jewelry [with her ashes] that we have,” Mama June specified. “But the big urn, if we’re driving somewhere, she goes with us.”
She did word one main exception: “Now, do we fly with her? No,” she stated. “But we fly with her on jewelry. We don’t fly with the big urn.”
“If we’re flying, no, she’s not left in the house,” June assured.
“What we normally do is we take her in the car, we’ll leave her in the car parked at a parking lot,” she defined. “And then she stays there for a week.”
June continued: “because we don’t want to fly with her and then have her taken away. We just don’t want to take that risk.”
“We drove to Colorado, she went to Alabama, she’s going to South Carolina this weekend,” June rattled off. “So just keeping that part like, ‘Okay, Anna’s in the car.’”
Notably, Alana Thompson is attending faculty in Colorado.
“Or we went to Justin’s momma this past week in Alabama and I was like, ‘Well, shoot, we brought Anna here,” she added for example.
Mama June shared the one want of Anna’s that they didn’t fulfill
Explaining that Anna Cardwell “loved being in the spotlight,” she admitted that “if it [had been] up to her, we would’ve streamed her funeral.”
June elaborated: “That’s what she wanted and we [were] like, ‘No, no.’ That was the only wish we did not give her when she passed away.”
She shared that her hope is that the reminiscence of Anna will reside on in followers because it has with the household.
