<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Cynthia,<div>Thank you for sharing the life you shared together with Bob. </div><div>Thank you for the memories I treasure of you and Bob. </div><div>Peace,</div><div>Elsa and Addi Batica</div><div>St Paul, MN <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 15, 2018, at 5:36 AM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Thank you, Cynthia, and thank you, Bob, for the ways in which you have lived your lives and shared them<br><br><div>Jim Wiegel</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353</a></div><div><font color="#000000">Tel.</font><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="tel:011-623-936-8671" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="font-size: 13pt;">011-623-936-8671</a><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">or</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="tel:011-623-363-3277" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2/0" style="font-size: 13pt;">011-623-363-3277</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:marilyn.oyler@gmail.com" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">jfwiegel@yahoo.com</font></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">www.partnersinparticipation.com</font></a></div><div><div><br></div><div>When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. "But that is not what great ships are built for." Clarissa Pinkola Estes</div></div></div><div><br>On Aug 15, 2018, at 06:30, Cynthia Vance via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font color="black" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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11 I enrolled him in Hospice at Home, due to his increasing symptoms from (possibly)
Lewy Body dementia and I cared for him since then. Last Sunday morning he
awoke with extreme difficulties. The Hospice nurse came and felt he probably had
a 'neurological event' the Saturday evening before, perhaps while
sleeping. She took him to the Venice Hospice House at 6pm that
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visited him 90 minutes later. He was very calm but not very responsive. I shared
my reflections as I showed him 4 photos -- his parents, his brothers Neil and
Denny, our doxies Star and Matilda and finally Bob and me. I also read two
poems I had written (about the dogs!) and a love letter highlighting and
thanking him for the special times we shared as a team in our community service/civil
rights efforts, followed by our strategic planning consulting, and finally in our
various nature adventures. We had had these discussions before and had agreed
that history had given us a fine ride! – and that hopefully we made the world a
little better.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He died peacefully 5
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grateful for the wonderful life and marriage we had. I could ask for no
more. Our home was one of peace, love, respect, creative planning and always in
anticipation of our next birding or butterflying adventure.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was always kind to others and was a
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of you, our colleagues over the years, wrote letters to him or telephoned him
in the past 10 days. He was so pleased to hear from you and I’m grateful
that you reached out to us. You shared your appreciation of his life and
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sister, Cecily, has been with me for 2 days and as an R.N. has given me
guidance during this journey. Other friends locally have compassionately
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has donated his brain to the University of Miami Brain Endowment Bank to both
confirm (or not) the diagnosis and to contribute to their research.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We will be spreading his ashes in our
Butterfly Garden and the Gulf of Mexico where he </span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">proudly completed 990 SCUBA dives to collect hundreds of
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