LaraW
08-17-2003, 09:38 PM
We got a call earlier tonight that DH's great Aunt Louise died this afternoon. She was a truly amazing woman.
I only met her about 7 or 8 years ago, while DH and I were dating and we came out to Colorado from Iowa for Thanksgiving. She was the wife of a Methodist minister and lived all over the US, I believe she was born and grew up in New England, but then lived in Iowa, Arizona, and Colorado that I know of. She and her husband also traveled a lot and hosted missionaries from all over the world.
She spent her life doing volunteer work in whatever local community she was living in at the time, since she wasn't able to work and was not about to spend her time sitting around. She had 4 children and lost 2 of them - 1 as an infant and the other sometime in the 1960's or early 1970's.
She turned 94 in June, and had only in the last couple of days really started to go downhill. She worked up until the end doing bead work (necklaces, bracelets, Christmas ornaments - than sort of thing), in fact, Jeff's aunt told us that her bed was full of beading stuff today when she was over there.
She went very peacefully in her sleep - her heart just stopped beating. She always said that she was going to "wear out not rust out" and that is exactly what she did.
So, while it is sad news, she certainly is someone who lived her life to the fullest and touched the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people.
Thanks for listening...
I only met her about 7 or 8 years ago, while DH and I were dating and we came out to Colorado from Iowa for Thanksgiving. She was the wife of a Methodist minister and lived all over the US, I believe she was born and grew up in New England, but then lived in Iowa, Arizona, and Colorado that I know of. She and her husband also traveled a lot and hosted missionaries from all over the world.
She spent her life doing volunteer work in whatever local community she was living in at the time, since she wasn't able to work and was not about to spend her time sitting around. She had 4 children and lost 2 of them - 1 as an infant and the other sometime in the 1960's or early 1970's.
She turned 94 in June, and had only in the last couple of days really started to go downhill. She worked up until the end doing bead work (necklaces, bracelets, Christmas ornaments - than sort of thing), in fact, Jeff's aunt told us that her bed was full of beading stuff today when she was over there.
She went very peacefully in her sleep - her heart just stopped beating. She always said that she was going to "wear out not rust out" and that is exactly what she did.
So, while it is sad news, she certainly is someone who lived her life to the fullest and touched the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people.
Thanks for listening...