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Wasted </font></font></div>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">And
another regrettable thing about death </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">is
the ceasing of your own brand of magic, </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">which
took a whole life to develop and market -- </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">the
quips, the witticisms, the slant </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">adjusted
to a few, those loved ones nearest </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">the
lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">in
the footlight glow, their laughter close to tears, </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">their
tears confused with their diamond earrings, </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">their
warm pooled breath in and out with your heartbeat, </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">their
response and your performance twinned. </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">The
jokes over the phone. The memories </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">packed
in the rapid-access file. The whole act. </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">Who
will do it again? That's it: no one; </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">imitators
and descendants aren't the same. </font></font>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5" style="font-size: 18pt">John
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On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 12:32:33 PM MST, Lynda C via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<p class="ydpa3f090fcyiv7975463548MsoNormal">David was part of the Springboard gathering at Lake Junaluska, NC, attending from their home in CA, I recall.
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<p class="ydpa3f090fcyiv7975463548MsoNormal">Later, David and Ellen spent a year or more in Greensboro, when John and I were still living there. We enjoyed time together with them as they settled in. Ever the teachers, they became affiliated with one of the Presbyterian churches
there in the university area and helped orchestrate several programs with global contexts as well as a movie night. </p>
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<p class="ydpa3f090fcyiv7975463548MsoNormal">In more recent years when we both resettled near our children, David was most helpful in helping some of us get acquainted with zoom technologies.
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<p class="ydpa3f090fcyiv7975463548MsoNormal">We celebrate this man of many talents and his expenditure in projects around the globe. We send our care to the Rebstock family in this time of transition.
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<p class="ydpa3f090fcyiv7975463548MsoNormal">Grace and peace, Lynda and John Cock, Davidson, NC </p>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Oe List ...] Celebrating the life of David Rebstock</span></p>
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<p class="ydpa3f090fcyiv7975463548MsoNormal">David Rebstock died two days ago. Ellen Rebstock asked that I post this obituary about his life.</p></div>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">David Martin Rebstock passed away peacefully at home in Rochester, Minnesota on Saturday, October 21 at the age of 86. He is remembered for having been a loving husband to Ellen, father to Mark, Tim and
Peter, and for having lived a life of global service. He cared deeply about the world, its people, and the challenges facing our planet.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">He was born in Waterford, Wisconsin December 9, 1936 to Milton and Alfreda Rebstock. He has fond memories of playing in the Fox River there and took great pride in his fishing boat, his newspaper route,
and working at an early age.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">He studied at Luther College in Iowa and completed his BA in Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he also served in ROTC.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">He served in the United States Army from 1959-1961 and was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. While there, he took advantage of leaves to explore Italy, Spain, and Scandinavia.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">After the Army, he returned to the University of Wisconsin, as he said, to get his Masters and his Mrs. He had met Ellen Vinette Long in 1962 while at the University of Wisconsin and they were married in
1965. Their family soon grew with the arrival of Mark, Tim and Peter.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">He worked as a CPA at Arthur Anderson from 1964-1976. David and Ellen joined the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), a human development organization in 1976. While with the ICA, he made economic development
treks to communities throughout Southeast Asia, Jamaica, and the United States.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">As a family, David and Ellen and their three boys lived in more than 25 places in 58 years of marriage including Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Scheveningen, Netherlands; Chicago, Illinois; Singapore; San Francisco
and Los Angeles, California; Kingston, Jamaica; Cincinnati, Ohio; Sacramento and Santa Rosa, California; Greensboro, North Carolina; Baltimore, Maryland; Rochester, Minnesota; and for 8 months, an R.V. named Maggie.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">He is preceded in death by his parents, Milton and Alfreda Rebstock. He is survived by his sister, Barbara Bucholtz; wife, Ellen; his sons, Mark, Tim and Peter; daughters in law, Tracy and Katherine; and
grandchildren, Charlie and Anna.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">A celebration of life service is being planned by his family for later this Fall.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Gifts in David’s memory may be made to the Institute of Cultural Affairs-USA.</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
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