Sad News
Friends and Robins,
It is with deep sorrow and the greatest sense of loss I have ever known that
I have to tell you that my sweet white-haired mother, Rita, passed away last
night in the place she loved most, at my home in Connecticut.
Many of you knew and loved her and I wish I had the time to tell you each
personally of this sad day, I hope you will understand.
Two weeks ago today we spent the day doing what she loved, potting hostas,
tending my garden and putting together the photo album from the Ann Arbor
convention. At dinner time she went to wash up and suffered a burst aneurysm.
She amazed everyone by surviving the event. My two sisters flew to
Connecticut the next day and we experienced a miracle when she woke up and
was able to talk to everyone in the family and friends who called on the
phone.
From the time she arrived at the hospital she had the top Yale neurosurgeons
consulting on her case. She was able to tell us that she wanted to come back
to my home and be in the sun room where she could see the garden and watch
the birds and creatures that she loved. She slipped back into a coma a week
ago and she came home with me under hospice care.
She had a passion for life and loved gardening, especially hostas and hosta
people. One of her favorite things was the hosta photograph project that we
worked on together since 1991. If anyone wishes, memorials in her name can be
sent to continue the Hosta Library web site or to your local hospice
organization.
For Hostalibrary.org contributions, contact Barbara Jones at BBrownJ@ AOL.com
or Bob Axmear at bobaxe@sbtek.net. Hospice can be found in your local phone
directory.
Reet and I will be going back to Ohio so I will be off-line for a while.
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers,
Carol Brashear in CT.
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