<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 Colleagues on the Long March of Love,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just a note to say my beloved Joe passed on to the "next chapter" yesterday at 5:41 AM, after a nearly 48-hour, post-stroke journey. </div><div class="">Ben, Jon and I were with him for most of that time, and it was a deeply meaning-filled experience of remembering with gratitude. </div><div class="">All 4 grandchildren and both daughters-in-law were able to visit early in the process of our “watching, waiting and standing present". </div><div class="">The staff at Watson Fields were amazingly loving and supportive during our sojourn, and gathered to witness Joe's “send-out” into the funeral hearse, accompanied by the singing of <i class="">Amazing Grace</i>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">God gives, and God takes away, and we give thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Grace and Peace,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marilyn </div></body></html>