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:|<buckeye-ELO@nospam.net> wrote in message
:|news:nrpve0l9u2ntuqjklcq40nih83236iukjb@4ax.com...
:|> In my email a couple days ago
:|>
:|> From: elleryfs@
:|> To: jalison@
:|> Subject: Sidney Schempp 1913-2004
:|> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:54:50 +0000
:|>
:|> Dear Friends,
:|>
:|> My mother, Sidney, died Monday morning July 5 at age 91, from
:|complications
:|> of liver disease. She prided herself on being tough, and was to the end,
:|as
:|> she would seem to slip away and then rally, many times. She had said
:|> several times that she wanted to last long enough to vote against Bush!
:|> Roger, Donna, and I were with her, and we each said good-bye in our own
:|> ways.
:|>
:|> I was in Long Beach, CA, attending an assembly of UUs when Donna called to
:|> say Mom was slipping away last Sunday, and I drove back immediately. It
:|was
:|> very moving to hear so many expressions of affection for her from dozens
:|of
:|> UUs who knew her from long affiliations with four UU churches; from our
:|> extended family; from many dear friends in the apartment complex here; and
:|> from friends in Boston who knew her through me. Sidney's early married
:|life
:|> was filled with adventure since she and my Dad roamed the USA for five
:|> years in the mid-1930s in a home-built house car. She enjoyed travel and
:|> new experiences, which inspired me. But I think her middle years were
:|often
:|> lonely and dominated by my father, and she felt vulnerable.
:|>
:|> She believed in peace and was skeptical about the need for war; she loved
:|> nature and farms, where she spent much of her youth; she believed in
:|> separation of church and state and our family's role in the Supreme Court
:|> case, and she deserves much credit, especially for helping Roger and Donna
:|> to cope in their teen years. Shge received the Clara Barton Award from
:|the
:|> UUCherry Hill Church for service and shared in many awards with Ed from
:|the
:|> American Humanists, Church & State magazine, the Philadelphia Freethought
:|> Society, and others.
:|>
:|> After they moved to California in 1999, where Donna gave them huge
:|support.
:|> Especially after Ed was in a nursing home and she was on her own, Sidney
:|> really blossomed, making many new friends. She loved the West Coast. Two
:|> years ago, she went to Tahiti with her friend Dottie, and later they went
:|> to Hawaii. Twice in the last years at age 89 & 90, she flew alone across
:|> the country to visit me and East Coast friends and relatives. Over the
:|last
:|> years when I visited here, we took some wonderful trips together, to her
:|> birthplace in Grant's Pass, Oregon and nearby Crater Lake and Mt. Lassen
:|> National Parks; to Yosemite; and just last March to Kings Canyon and
:|> Sequoia Nat'l Parks in the Sierras. She had a very wonderful time at the
:|UU
:|> General Assembly last summer in Boston, and enjoyed traveling to
:|> Philadelphia and Vermont last autumn. It is very sad that this joyful
:|time
:|> in her life was impaired and cut short with health problems.
:|>
:|> I came to know her more and appreciate her in new ways in these last
:|years,
:|> and I wish there could have been more time. I am missing her very much.
:|> She always felt a reverent and spiritual bond to California's redwood
:|> forests. We will scatter some ashes there and bury some with Dad's under
:|an
:|> osage orange tree at the Cherry Hill UU Church in New Jersey.
:|>
:|> We will hold a Memorial Service for her here at Starr King UU Church on
:|> Saturday, July 10.
:|>
:|> For all of you who might be inclined to vote against Bush in November,
:|> please remember Mom!
:|> Regards, Ellery
:|
:|Please accept my sympathy for your loss. I know its hard.

:|I will still however, vote for Bush regardless.

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:56:54 -0400,

In my email a couple days ago

From: elleryfs@
To: jalison@
Subject: Sidney Schempp 1913-2004
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:54:50 +0000

Dear Friends,

My mother, Sidney, died Monday morning July 5 at age 91, from

of liver disease. "snip"

Political beliefs aside, please pass on my condolences. Thanks

:|On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:56:54 -0400,