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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>You and Joe were both folk we respected and appreciated – ‘the memory lingers on.’ <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bill and Carol Schlesinger<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mari Crocker via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 28, 2023 3:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> ICA-OE Listservs <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br><b>Cc:</b> Mari Crocker <maricrocker@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Oe List ...] Joe Crocker's Passing<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues on the Long March of Love,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ben, Jon and I were with him for most of that time, and it was a deeply meaning-filled experience of remembering with gratitude. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>All 4 grandchildren and both daughters-in-law were able to visit early in the process of our “watching, waiting and standing present". <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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>Amazing Grace</i>.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>God gives, and God takes away, and we give thanks.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Grace and Peace,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Marilyn <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>
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