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

[Shelley Hahn via OE]

Leslie has shared contact information for Neva (Forbes) Reece for anyone
who would like to contact her:

"If anyone would like to contact Neva she is at

Parkview Manor
1201 Hunt Avenue
Columbia, MO 65202

Her cell is 573-355-8190

She has good word-finding days and bad but she seems upbeat and loves to
chat."


Shelley Hahn

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:27 AM, Shelley Hahn <shelley.l.hahn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Leslie has appreciated the responses on this forum.  Here is another
> message from her:
>
> "Thank you Shelley! I will try to figure out how to pass these on to her.
> She said she would welcome phone calls and I will pass on her address as
> soon as I get it. She is at 573-355-8190. She has good days and bad days.
> Sometimes her thoughts wander so you can reiterate the point so she gets
> back to it (I think she forgets what she's talking about). Sometimes she
> just uses the wrong words. She wanted to make sure people knew she wasn't
> "the same""
>
> Shelley Hahn
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Isobel Bishop via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>> I remember Neva well and am so sad to hear this news.
>> My prayers and my candle light are for her.
>> In peace,
>> Isobel
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 27 Oct 2016, at 9:55 am, via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>
>> Sad.  I remember her fondly.  Please pass to Leslie the question I have
>> as a health care worker, “Is Neva “fit” to make her legal decisions, ie
>> hire an attorney and change her power of attorney either for health care or
>> finance/property.”
>>
>>
>>
>> Mary Hampton (OTR)
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
>> Windows 10
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *Shelley Hahn via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> *Sent: *Wednesday, October 26, 2016 1:44 PM
>> *To: *Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> *Subject: *Re: [Oe List ...] Neva (Forbes) Reece
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Milan Hamilton
>>
>> Aka Mellowmilan
>>
>> 80 North Center Street
>>
>> Redlands, CA 92373
>>
>> 909-735-5163 (H)
>>
>> 909-556-5815 (M)
>>
>> E-mail: mellowmilan2 at gmail.com
>>
>> Blog: www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com
>>
>> Blog 2: www.mellowmilansite.wordpress.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> "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
>>
>>
>>
>> Please keep Neva in your thoughts and prayers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Shelley Hahn
>>
>>
>>
>>
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