Sunday I went to the graveside service for Eleanor Drucker in Via Verde. Eleanor had just celebrated her 75th birthday two weeks ago. Eleanor was only in the hospital a few days before her death. She worked at the police station the week before entering the hospital. (figures huh?)

I had never been to a Jewish funeral service before. It was very nice. A cantor sang a few songs and the Rabbi presided over the service. Laurie Moore spoke about Eleanor on behalf of the police station. Approximately 60 people attended the service, with about half of the people from the police station.

At the end of the service Eleanor's casket was lowered into the ground and relatives and friends took shovels and placed shovels of dirt on the casket. I had never seen that done before.

Eleanor worked for ROP managing the Livesan fingerprint machine in the police station. Since I ran the latent fingerprint section of the police station, Eleanor called my quite ofter with problems with the Livescan machine. The lady had a huge heart and was a pleasure to know.