November 2007 Archives

Thank you for your Pennies from Heaven pendant.

I have five sisters and one brother.  My sister, Venita, (or Nita as we all called her) was the second oldest and the first of the six of us to pass on to Heaven. 

When Nita was dying, we told her that she needed to send us three pennies so we would know she got to Heaven.  We told her that it must be three pennies so we would know that she met her husband, our Daddy, and her nephew... all who had already passed on.

Each day, I would whisper, "Now remember Nita... you need to send us three pennies."  I reminded her every day for weeks.  Even on her deathbed I gave her one more reminder and she whispered back, "I will remember."

That next week all of us cleaned and emptied her house.   At the end of the last day, when all was clean and boxes were removed... we found three pennies... that was all that was left lying right there together... three pennies.  We knew she was Home.

The next day, Nita's daughter went to press clothes for Nita's funeral.  When she walked into the laundry room there was another set of three pennies lying out together on the washer.

I found three pennies together about one week later lying on my empty dresser top.

Megan, Nita's granddaughter, was the first of the grandchildren to begin to find sets of pennies.  We were all meeting at the Olive Garden for dinner a couple months later and as soon as she got out of her car, there were three pennies at her feet on the ground.    Since then Megan continues to find three pennies together at one time.

Mindy, another granddaughter who is in high school now, took her grandmother's death the hardest.  After Nita died, Mindy packed up the little things that she had given to her grandmother over the years.  She could not bear to go through the memory box so she put it in her basement. Mindy lamented that she had never found her three pennies like the rest of us had.  About a year later, Mindy was ready to unpack the box and look through the memories... there on the bottom of the box were three pennies.

Our family continues to find pennies all the time...three at a time.   Nita remembered.

This is why we all wear your Pennies from Heaven pendant.  Thank you.

Story sent to us by Catherine Andrew,

Atlanta, GA