Jaroldeen asplund edwards biography

This spring I've been in a slump. My second son went on a mission and I miss him. My knees have really been acting up and the pain has made me less energetic and responsible. I've just been barely treading water when I got a phone call from my brother that my mother was in the hospital.

Jaroldeen “Jerry” Asplund Edwards was a wife, mother, grandmother, author, and speaker.

I should have fallen apart but I felt surprisingly peaceful. The next night she was gone. So this morning my sister asked me to write her obituary, which was tough. At first I wrote it completely sterile but then I couldn't resist and put in a little about the bright light my mother was.

Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards, 76, passed away Friday morning, May 30, , after struggling valiantly with heart complications.

One of the well known stories she wrote was called the "Daffodil Principle," inspiring us to change the world one little step at a time. She was truly one of the noble and great ones and I'm honored to have been given the gift of being her daughter.

Here it is.