<div dir="auto">Bob touched our lives. Profoundly.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Bill and Carol Schlesinger.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 3:19 PM Ellie Stock via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-size:16px"></div>
<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:16px"><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Dear Friends,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">On Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 08:19:31 PM CST, Sarah Booher </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">(<a shape="rect" href="mailto:gefbooher@stny.rr.com" style="color:rgb(25,106,212);text-decoration-line:underline" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">gefbooher@stny.rr.com</a>) wrote:</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><p><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Bob passed away this morning Feb 18 about 11 am. It was peaceful with family there.</span></p></div></div><font size="2">Today she wrote and asked me to share on the list serves:</font></div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div>
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<div>We are working on the obituary. Bob did not want a funeral. He wanted the family to hold a private memorial event outside on his daughter’s farm at a later time. People are encouraged to make a donation to a worthy local charity of their choice and he was very involved with good vocal groups struggling financially… don’t they all.<br></div><div><div id="m_3599770553445846700ydp410db80dyiv5855628445"><div><div><br></div><div>Sarah will forward the obituary when it is complete.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Carleton and I worked with Bob as part of the Rochester LCX for the six years we were there--many meetings and events between our neighboring congregation, Dewey Avenue Presbyterian Church and his, Christ Presbyterian Church. Bob was a mentor, friend, and colleague, and we always appreciated his sense of care, compassion, sense of humor, and passion for justice, grounded in local communities. Our paths crossed many times through the ICA and in 2014 when he and Sarah attended the 40th reunion of the Rochester Region Global Odyssey. We had a chance to talk with him a few weeks ago when he was looking for the words to the Being Song and also the In Memoriam Reflection, at that time in hospice care. He said he was half-way through the 6 months' time the doctors gave him. A few days ago we talked with Sarah and Bob was talking in the background, saying he was "lumping along". I asked, limping along?, and he said just "lumping" along.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We give thanks for and celebrate the gift of his passionate life, his care and love for creation (grounded in their farm) and for his love of music and singing. Our prayers are with Sarah and all the family. May Bob's legacy live on through those whose lives he touched.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Grace and peace~</div><div dir="ltr">Ellie </div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:elliestock@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">elliestock@aol.com</a> </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div>
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