After my wife lost her father, a few weeks later, I lost my mother. In my wife's situation, she and her siblings, including two step siblings, are all getting along fine. I believe the passing of both Charles and Evelyn Devol had the effect of bringing the children closer.
With my mother passing, my brother Chris and I are closer. However, my step father has probably decided to not follow my mother's wishes, and cut my brother and myself out of any inheritance. Does this make me angry? It did, but not because of the money involved in the trust fund. I am an old man now, and am actually quite well off financially. No, what really makes me angry is the absolute disregard Milton Samuel Beyer had for my mother. They were married for 39 years before my mother passed away, and now? Now she is evidently just a memory to him. He treated her like she was his servant, rather than his wife.
I have no doubt at all that my mother is in Heaven. I do believe that my stepfather is headed straight to Hell when he dies. He is 92 and frail. However, he still has the ability to be a total jerk, and he is in for a rude awakening. Life is about learning the proper way to love. The Savior loves us all more than we can fathom. What we have to do to live with Him forever is to accept that he died for us, and confess our love for Him. Sam Beyer is a Godless waste of a human body. His only God is his money. I hope he enjoys it for the short time he has left on this earth. I do not hate the man, I am disappointed in him due to the shoddy way he treated my mother. I do not care about him being rude to me, I have a really thick skin.
I MISS AND LOVE YOU MOM! I WILL SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE!!!