<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="">Ellen,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I want to add my condolences to you and the entire family. I also want to say that the obituary was so fine. What a tribute to what we called ourselves, “The Nobodies of History”. But I would add, at times we were somebody!. There is a Mystery to life. People die all the time, but don’t leave much of a mark. Yet there ii is, a dream made real. A library, just a library, but step inside and you will feel the love that made it. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Grace and Peace,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jack<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 26, 2021, at 9:22 PM, Judith Hamje via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thank you Lynda for sharing this story of a life well lived in service to others.<div class="">Judith</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 9:14 PM Cynthia Vance via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Richard William Howie | The Altamont Enterprise<br class="">
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<div class="">Thank you Lynda for sharing this
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<div class="">Thanks for sharing this, Lynda.</div>
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<div class="">In celebration of the life and service of Richard Howie, whose memorial service was today,  I found this delightful small town newspaper interview to be most enlightening about the many aspects of Richard and Ellen’s life that many of us
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<div class="">With Ellen, his children and grandchildren, we celebrate the profound service and generosity of Richard (and Ellen) that we do know through their work with EI, OE, and ICA. 
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<div class="">In keeping with his love of the ocean, “Journey On,  Richard, with grace and peace and love, on life’s unending sea, “
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