[Oe List ...] We are collecting stories for Marge Philbrook's 85th Birthday Celebration

[Wanda Holcombe]

Happy 85th Birthday Marge, 

You have always been our model of  "responding to the need of others for whatever was needed in that moment".
We marveled at your typing speed and all looked to you for the emergency typing needs.....how many days & nights you must have spent getting us ready for the assigned tasks.
You cared for both of us so very well when we came for the Archives week several years ago to ICA Chicago (Kemper Building)...even to the much needed care of picking us up at the airport!!!!.

Your whole family has been part of our lives over the years and we feel blessed that we continue to be in mission together wherever we show up....

Grace & Peace,
Wanda & George

All these buds will blossom.
In that moment you will know how the seeds you planted have been
miraculously growing. ~Rumi
 












Wanda & George Holcombe
14900 Yellowleaf Trail
Austin TX 78728
Email:  wandah70 at gmail.com
Cell Phone:  512-619-3469

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>> Many of you were on assignments with her in various places and we would like to know those stories.   I tried to make a list.  Lagos, Manila, Tokyo, Boston, Kansas City, Detroit, Dallas,  & 3444.  Of course, recently back at 4750.   
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>> She loves to tell us from her perspective but we would like to hear them from yours as well.
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>> Her first official RSI was in 62 or 63 in Phoenix.  Joe and crew were in Phoenix staying with us and he was speaking for Religious Emphasis week at Arizona State.  When they asked the opening question, "Name and what grounds  you in history?  she replied.  "My name is Marge Philbrook and I run a motel".
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>> One summer after we had first moved to the 4750 building, she was asked to coordinate the print shop.  She told JWM, she would do it if she had 2 men would not go to the bathroom unless she told them to and so they assigned Wayne Nelson and ????.  She went to Sears and bought 2 blue dresses exactly alike so she could wash one each night and have a clean one to put on the next day.  Then when the program was over she threw them away.  I remember they had a sign on the wall "ODD before EVEN" because when you are printing you want 4 on the back of 3 or 9 with 10 on the back.
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>> Once when I visited Kansas City, Dallas Z told me, when there was nothing in the kitchen to cook, they would send Marge into the kitchen because she could always find something make fried rice.
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>> Marge Philbrook, 2013
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>> “I don’t understand why you wait until someone is dead to say all the good things about them.  I want people to tell the good things to my face. Then when I die, you can get together and tell all the bad things.”
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>> It would be great if you would  join us to celebrate- June 9th at 4750 North Sheridan in Chicago,  2 to 5 PM. 
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>> But if you cannot make it, send us your story. We will be sure to tell ‘em to her face.
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>> She knows about the party if you want to call her directly, I will give you her phone number. Please reply to mhsp1928 at gmail.com.
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>> You're the greatest!
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>> Paula  
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>> Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
>> Melody Beattie
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