<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Geoffrey, Stuart, and Elena, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Larry and Evelyn Philbrook arrived in Taiwan after those great years in Kenya and I can still remember giving some youth, of which Stuart was one, our coveted bottles of soy sauce, ketchup, and the mustard went to Andrew Knutson, as I recall. This was just as we were leaving and packed up to go to Nairobi and the airport to leave Kenya. Lela was a baby in a kanga on my back, Lloyd was always running from place to place staying out of the reach of the Wiegel twins in Kamweleni. <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">We went to the Philippines, and then Malaysia and lived and worked with Gordon in Taiwan. I, Evelyn, got a job at Taipei American School. Someone came and told me that Roxanna worked in HR office and has many friends upstairs. After settling in to my job at TAS after a month, I received a call from the Deputy Superintendent, Mr. Weislow through his secretary, Sandy. She said you know Roxanne right? Yes. However I have never worked with her directly. Your husband is with ICA Taiwan right and works with her husband Gordon? Yes. Okay so Mr. Weislow has a question for you. “What is your mission in Taiwan?” That was 1991.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So her memory still lives on with those people who worked with her in TAS, even when she had gone. I am retired from TAS, 2016, but this just shows the impact of who she was when she cared for people, or that would not have come up. </div><div class="">I am sorry to hear the news, but glad you could support her to do what she wanted in the final days.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Blessings to all, Love and Peace, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook </div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 29, 2020, at 6:18 PM, Mary Kurian D'Souza via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Dear, dear Geoffrey, Stuart, and Elena,<div class="">I can still hear Roxana's laughter</div><div class="">I have deep respect and love for both your parents. </div><div class="">For the last couple of days I have been remembering how Roxana facilitated the conversations that allowed international interns to get a stipend a long time ago. She was in the finance office. This happened in 1972. Strange that it should show up in my mind around the time of her passing</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, they were standing in for Cyprian's parents at our wedding. They lead the conversation the evening before we were married at the rehearsal dinner when we presented our family document. </div><div class=""><br class="">May you be well as you receive and appropriate the fullness of this transition. </div><div class="">I know Gordon prepared you for this. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for everything you did to care for Roxana</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope we get to see you sometime soon in this part of the world. h </div><div class="">Love,</div><div class="">Mary<br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 29-Oct-2020, at 2:02 PM, James Wiegel via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class="">“Marvelous”. So Roxana. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How was such a woman, such a human being created to live amongst us?? I am so grateful for her, so grateful for Geoffrey, for Stuart, for Elena. So grateful.<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt;" class="">Jim Wiegel</span><br class=""><div class=""><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn’t work out but I’m glad I had them.” Robert James Waller</span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 28, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Roxana Harper via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">After a severe case of shingles and diminishing physical and emotional reserves, Roxana Harper passed away in her sleep this morning as she wished: in her own bed, with her family surrounding her. When we asked her last night what she thought the afterlife would be like she answered, “Marvelous.”</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Go with God, Mom, and be at peace. 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