Re: Sad News
Dear Carol,
I did not know you or your mother, but I am saddened by your loss she
sounds like a wonderful person. If you feel the need to talk to someone who
has also lost her mother keep me in mind. God bless.
Paula (Nancy Krul's daughter)
At 08:46 AM 8/21/99 EDT, you wrote:
>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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