<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Happy 85th Birthday Marge, </span><div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 18px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 18px; ">You have always been our model of "responding to the need of others for whatever was needed in that moment".</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 18px; ">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.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 18px; ">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!!!!.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 18px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 18px; ">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....</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 18px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 18px; ">Grace & Peace,</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 18px; ">Wanda & George</span></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">All these buds will blossom.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In that moment </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">you will know </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">how the seeds you planted have been</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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border-spacing: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; ">Wanda & George Holcombe<br>14900 Yellowleaf Trail<br>Austin TX 78728<br>Email: <a href="mailto:wandah70@gmail.com">wandah70@gmail.com</a><br>Cell Phone: 512-619-3469</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div></span></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Begin forwarded message:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font><font face="georgia, serif">Many of you were on assignments with her in various places </font></font><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; ">and</span><font><font face="georgia, serif"> we would like to know those stories.</font></font><font><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></font><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; ">I tried to make a list. Lagos, Manila, Tokyo, Boston, Kansas City, Detroit, Dallas, & 3444. Of course, recently back at 4750. </span><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">She loves to tell us from her perspective but we would like to hear them from yours as well.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>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".</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>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.</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><i><font face="georgia, serif">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.</font></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; "><font color="#cc0000">Marge Philbrook, 2013</font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><font color="#cc0000">“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.”</font></i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif"><u>It would be great if you would join us to celebrate- June 9th at 4750 North Sheridan in Chicago, 2 to 5 PM</u>. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif">But if you cannot make it, send us your story. We will be sure to tell ‘em to her face.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif">She knows about the party if you want to call her directly, I will give you her phone number. Please reply to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:mhsp1928@gmail.com" target="_blank">mhsp1928@gmail.com</a>.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif">You're the greatest!</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div><div>Paula <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><em>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</em>.</font></div><div><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><em>Melody</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Beattie</font></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></span></span></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br>http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>