Column: Before she died, his wife planned out her memorial tour. Now he's following it to a T … college bars and all
Lorraine Wagner had it all planned out. Where she wanted her husband and kids to visit after she died. Where she wanted memorial celebrations held. Who should be invited. What prayers should be recited. Where she wanted her ashes to be spread.
"Down to a gnat's eyebrow," Chuck Wagner, her husband, told me.
After Lorraine passed away in May 2018 at age 73, after close to a decade with achalasia, a condition that closes off the esophagus, Chuck set to work living out her wishes. Sometimes alone. Often with Steve, their son, who lives near his dad in Tucson, Arizona. Sometimes with Laura, their daughter, who lives in Sacramento, California.
Hawaii was the first destination. Chuck and Lorraine met there in July 1968 at the
