<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">What a journey it was just reading through the “cloud of witnesses” who already responded to your message Marilyn. Memories of our lives touching all run together, going back to RS1 and PLC days and from Joe’s visit to LA when he was on the Panchayat to help us through a rough time, and your graciousness on one of my FOOD FOR ALL trips to Boston. Linda and I join in sending love and healing to you and your family and in gratitude for being allowed to be a part of the grand experiment.<div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 28, 2023, at 7:03 PM, Gail West via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Marilyn and family,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sending love, thanks and deep condolences.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">In gratitude,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dick and Gail West</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 4:01 AM Mari Crocker via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Dear Colleagues on the Long March of Love,</div><div><br></div><div>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>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>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>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>.</div><div><br></div><div>God gives, and God takes away, and we give thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Grace and Peace,</div><div><br></div><div>Marilyn </div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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