Going through old email presumed compromised by Stan's wife, son, or someone who got ahold of the computer at his house. It was an email I used to make my mother's memorial invitations while I was at dads house. Someone grabbed the mail then fed it to the RNC since Stan discussed Julia Jackson's role as a campaign manager, I presume.
Looks like Mary K was on the health committee of League of Women Voters. Exactly where I would expect her to align, given we need so much improvement in health care.
....also this letter was funny. It was delivered after her death. I had not read it.
What can we say? You are in our thoughts and prayers.
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This is a time when you go back to beginnings. Our first encounter with y’all was on the bulletin board of the builders’ sales office in Ashford. You had a notice for liberal Catholics to come to a liturgy group, a ray of hope in this Bible Belt! I wrote it all down, and lost the paper in the move. But several months after we were here, Jamie, 5th grade, mentioned his friend, Greg Merriman, and the name clicked. Suddenly we were part of the Community of Hope and under the tutelage of the Merrimans. What a journey it has been. Just watching the two of you look at a problem, sometimes waiting to see if anyone else would like to tackle it first, then coming up with a basic solution, and then…and this still blows my mind just thinking of it…then organizing others to help do it, because, of course, you can’t save the world alone.
True Renaissance people…interested in so many things, knowledgeable about so much, yet still taking time for friends, always gracious and kind. Mary K., the epitome of energy, always had a new idea, a new cause. She spent the last night before she left for Salt Lake with us; she visited us in Maplewood too, tho’ we can’t remember why she was in New York…something political, I guess.
I remember her talking about how we should all go to one of the black colleges not too far away and get our masters as minorities.
And do you remember hosting a party for 100 of, maybe Julie’s junior high friends? She said the rule of thumb was that only a third of those invited actually come. But the junior high crowd didn’t know about that rule, and all 100 came. Some were dropped off by older brothers, complete with their own liquid refreshments. There was something about sending poor Greg outside to get them out of the bushes.
Recently, Andy was hatching a plan to go to IHOP or La Madeleine for breakfast on Saturdays, and invite old friends to meet us there. He had specifically mentioned Mary K and Stan. We are so sad
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