Well, good luck. I have refused point blank to read passages at my brothers or my step dads funerals, so you are certainly doing a better job than me.
Home now. It went better than I feared; middle brother came (which I'm pleased about, for my mum's sake more than his) and my reading went well. I even held it together, right up until the bugler sounded the Last Post...
Sorry to hear about your loss. My mom died in similar circumstances (oesophageal cancer, in her case) at the start of lockdown in March, and current circumstances do make everything more difficult, especially with the restricted funerals and inability to hold a proper wake. I've personally found it hard to process my grief with everything else going on, quite often just feeling numb and then suddenly being hit like a tonne of bricks.
Hope you're holding up OK.
I am very glad it went better than you thought. Take cate doomanic.