Beth's mother was in a nursing home in New Castle while Beth was living in Harmony, forty minutes away. Her mother was very sick and Beth had been to see her the night before. The nursing home called in the morning saying that she should come immediately since her mother's condition had worsened.

Beth arrived shortly, went to the room and started talking to her mother, since the sense of her presence was very strong. But a nurse interrupted her to tell her that her mother had died moments before. Beth got very upset and they went out to the nurses' station together. She was not only in grief over her mother's sudden death, but was angry at herself for not being there when she died. She called a friend to come be with her.

While they were waiting for the friend's arrival, she and several nurses were standing in a circle by the nurses' station fifteen feet from her mother's room. Beth was trying to make some decisions about the arrangements. While she stood there, she sensed a presence approaching her from the rear. Then a hand grasped her shoulder. She could feel the pressure of the thumb on the back of her shoulder and then the fingers press into the front of her shoulder as someone took hold of her in a comforting gesture.

She turned around, thinking it was the owner of the nursing home who was a good friend. But there was no one there. At that moment she knew it was her mother. It was as though she were saying, "I'm here, I'm OK, don't be upset, calm down and do what you have to do. But relax. Everything is fine." As a result of this experience, a tremendous sense of calm came over Beth. It was a typical motherly action, taking hold of her and telling her to calm down.

The friend arrived and they went into the room together, standing by her mother's body and saying their farewells. Beth still had a strong sense of her mother's presence in the room. The friend, who has psychic abilities, told her that she saw a tall young man in buckskins come into the room and lead her mother away. Beth could not see this, but shortly after this the sense of her mother's presence was gone.