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 year since the death of Mama June’s daughter, Anna Cardwell.
Amidst their grief, the household brings her ashes with them each time they go away the home.
Mama June beforehand defined how the household retains Anna with them
Simply over every 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 — typically, illegally. Different households maintain ashes in funerary urns at house. Sadly, some family members find yourself in unlabeled plastic containers in a cupboard.
As Mama June defined in her Fb submit, she and different household convey Anna’s cremains with them on errands.
Talking to Individuals, Mama June is now elaborating on how the household is treating Anna’s ashes.
“For me, personally, taking her urn in every single place with us, and I’m speaking about the entire urn,” she detailed.
“Individuals would possibly suppose I’m loopy,” June acknowledged. “However we’re speaking about the entire urn. We’re not speaking in regards to the little child 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, forsaking her two daughters and grieving household.
“We do all put on jewellery [with her ashes] that we’ve,” Mama June specified. “However the large urn, if we’re driving someplace, she goes with us.”
She did notice one main exception: “Now, will we fly together with her? No,” she stated. “However we fly together with her on jewellery. We don’t fly with the large urn.”
“If we’re flying, no, she’s not left in the home,” June assured.
“What we usually do is we take her within the automotive, we’ll go away her within the automotive parked at a parking zone,” she defined. “After which she stays there for every week.”
June continued: “as a result of we don’t need to fly together with her after which have her taken away. We simply don’t need to take that danger.”
“We drove to Colorado, she went to Alabama, she’s going to South Carolina this weekend,” June rattled off. “So simply holding that half like, ‘Okay, Anna’s within the automotive.’”
Notably, Alana Thompson is attending college in Colorado.
“Or we went to Justin’s momma this previous week in Alabama and I used to be like, ‘Effectively, shoot, we introduced Anna right here,” she added for instance.
Mama June shared the one want of Anna’s that they didn’t fulfill
Explaining that Anna Cardwell “liked being within the highlight,” she admitted that “if it [had been] as much as her, we’d’ve streamed her funeral.”
June elaborated: “That’s what she needed and we [were] like, ‘No, no.’ That was the one want we didn’t give her when she handed away.”
She shared that her hope is that the reminiscence of Anna will reside on in followers because it has with the household.
