[Oe List ...] Neva (Forbes) Reece

[Shelley Hahn via OE]

I am passing along everyone's kind words to Leslie to share with her family.

Shelley

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sad news indeed. Your pain is acknowledged and received with compassion.
> Neva and I go way back to the late 1960s in Lincoln, NB. We were a part of
> the Lincoln Metro Cadre and the Kansas City Region when Terry Wright and I
> were Regional coordinators. Neva worked as my church secretary at Trinity
> UCC. We lost touch through the years but she was a stalwart and a strong
> presence in everything we worked for, and I never forgot the many
> experiences we shared. I am sorry to hear of her difficulties in recent
> years and the burden this has placed on Leslie and Doug. There may be
> consolation in the words of Robert Adams, which he often repeated: “You are
> not the body. You are not the mind. There is only Love.” Neva’s spirit
> hopefully is shining through her current battles and will be acknowledged
> and received with compassion, for sure by the mystery, if not by all of us.
> Peace and Love, MM
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> *From:* OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] *On Behalf Of *Shelley
> Hahn via OE
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 26, 2016 11:00 AM
> *To:* Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Subject:* [Oe List ...] Neva (Forbes) Reece
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> Leslie Forbes asked if I would share the following update re: her mother,
> Neva (Forbes) Reece.  I asked if there is an address where people might
> send a card or note; she doesn't kknow the address but is trying to get it
> and will share it when she does.
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> "My biological mother, Neva Reece, had a brain injury several years ago
> where her word-finding and word-understanding is impaired (she has a hard
> time talking and understanding and cannot read). She also has issues with
> rational thought and cannot do any numbers at all. I have been her medical
> and financial power of attorney until she hired a lawyer to remove me
> without my knowledge as she had done with my eldest brother. She is now a
> ward of the county and has been found to have pancreatic cancer. I do not
> get phone calls returned often so the information is sketchy. Doctors have
> not returned my phone call, but my brother Doug is on his way there for a
> consult where they will decide to have an invasive surgery or not. She is
> currently in a secured facility nursing home (she twice hit a resident at
> the unsecured facility so was moved). Her letters and phone calls are
> fairly incomprehensible. My brother and I talk it through to see what she
> might be talking about. I have been holding off posting this thinking that
> I would have a better picture of prognosis since I have been told it's
> dormant, but since they are talking about invasive surgery I don't know."
>  -- from Leslie Forbes
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> Please keep Neva in your thoughts and prayers.
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> Shelley Hahn
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