[Oe List ...] Celebrating the life of Jonathan Troxel

[Gail West]

We send our deepest condolences and love to you all.  Dick and Gail West

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 10:50 AM Lynda C via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> What a special photo.  Thank you for sharing this.  I need to look for old
> photos.  We were with the Troxels  in 5th City Program Center House.
> Jonathan was one of the 6th graders as I recall.  Melanie Harris and the
> Gayner (sp?) children, youth Todd and Tad Mueller, and our lst grade
> Jeremiah were some of the E. G.
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> Our deep care to the Troxel family.  A special recent  memory of Jonathan
> was having him join in the Archives work, wanting to begin to document the
> Emerging Generation.  I hope others will join in to “finish his work”  by
> looking into old photos, sharing curriculum, etc.
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>       Lynda
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> *From: *OE <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of Elsa Batica via
> OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Date: *Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 9:53 PM
> *To: *Karen Snyder via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Cc: *Elsa Batica <marosel2000 at yahoo.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [Oe List ...] Celebrating the life of Jonathan Troxel
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> Dear Karen and Jim,
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> This post hit me sad. Addi and I grieve with you.
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> I remember Johnathan when he was a little boy at one summer camp we were
> assigned. I also remember him as a happy little boy at Kemper. He loved to
> come around us to play with our baby Jaffer.
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> Sending you our love and prayers. I hope his warm memories will comfort
> you.
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> Here's a picture I found from our collection with L-R, Adam Lingo, Jaffer
> Batica, Thomas Prather, Benjamin Bossart, Jonathan Troxel and Allison
> Scott.
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> Elsa Batica St Paul, MN
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> On Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 01:18:48 PM CDT, Karen Snyder via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Greetings - especially to those of you who knew our son, Jonathan Troxel,
>
> Yesterday, June 6, Jonathan suffered a cardiac arrest (triggered by asthma
> attacks possibly exacerbated by the air pollution from the Canadian
> wildfires) and died. He has had asthma since he was child. He began having
> strong problems with his breathing last Thursday, saw a doctor on Saturday,
> but still continued to have issues. Before going to work Tuesday, he texted
> us that he had another asthma attack, but was feeling better and proceeded
> to go to work. After he had walked the one block to work at the Admiral at
> the Lake Retirement Center, he told his staff colleagues that he was
> breathless and collapsed. All the nurses from the Admiral, the EMT
> paramedics and the hospital ER team were not able to revive him.
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> This of course has been a great shock to our lives - Jim and I as well as
> Jonathan’s wife, Elizabeth. We are in the midst of deciding what are the
> appropriate ways to celebrate his life. Although we don’t know who is
> reading this email, you too may have had experiences of death that you have
> wrestled with how to celebrate the life of your loved one. We thought
> sharing about Jonathan through the Dialogues was one way to celebrate.
>
> If Jonathan knew you, he loved you. Any time someone would visit Jim and
> I, he wanted to see them too. He loved his experiences as a child in the
> Order, singing “Try to Remember” in the Student House, and was disappointed
> when Jim and I left the Order community. He has been pleased that Jim and I
> have re-engaged with the ICA. In the past couple of years he has enjoyed
> working with the Phase I files of the Global Archives in order to have them
> put on its website. And he has kept up with the lives of many who have
> transitioned from this life. Now he is among them.
>
> Jim, Elizabeth and I are grateful for the messages and phone calls we have
> received. Each and every one is meaningful to us.  Thank you.
>
> Take good care of yourselves, especially in these days of uncertain air
> quality or illnesses. Life is precious and mysterious.
>
> Peace and love,
>
> Karen and Jim Troxel
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