Ad, thanks for looking in and for your thought on this.
I appreciate the perspective: this is about the kids and their dad.
On the topic of OW, I am having difficulty just 'accepting'.
If she had been a new woman that XH had met, that would be different. She was, however, a friend who betrayed and actively involved herself in the worst possible way (black-mail) in the destruction of a marriage and shattering of the lives of 2 kids whom she knew (and courted with presents).
I hope she is not an issue in relation to the funeral.