Honoring Their Wishes

When Adair Gellman became her mother’s Successor Trustee, she had no legal training and no roadmap. What she had were organization, determination, and a deep love for the woman whose wishes she was entrusted to honor.

What followed was a journey through the business of death and bereavement – the paperwork, the phone calls, the checklists, the decisions large and small. Along the way, she discovered something unexpected: opportunities to transform loss into generosity, and grief into …