Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:17:05 -0400
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Boston Bob's family - please help
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I've just gone to Larry's pay-it-forward-fund website -
http://www.roadhaus.com/store.html - and made my contribution. It doesn't
take a second. Everyone, please help if you can!
Bob lived in Wayland, Massachusetts, but his website doesn't show his street
address. If someone has it, could you please post it? I'm sure Karen might
appreciate hearing about the overwhelming sense of loss in the vanagon
community in real honest-to-goodness cards. And I'd like to send her one
too.
Darryl, your email just arrived. Larry's PIF fund is the easy way to go.
Do you have Bob's snail mail address?
Joy
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Richard Golen <rgolen@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Count me in as well.
>
>
> Ric
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:22:45 -0400
> > From: hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM
> > Subject: Boston Bob's family - please help
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just saw the emails about Bob having passed away - I've been in transit
> > and didn't get them yesterday. Bob was a good friend, a warm and
> > caring person, who provided the heart keeping Matilda going, but more
> > importantly was always willing to help me and to invite me into his home
> and
> > his friendship. I spent time with him whenever I was in Boston. And now
> > I have just arrived back in Boston from Mali to find this very sad news.
> >
> > But that's not why I'm sending this email. As some of you know. Bob's
> > teen-aged daughter Julie is severely retarded. Bob and his wife were
> under
> > extreme pressure all the time because of the challenges of taking care of
> > her, both emotional and financial. Bob had an insurance policy with which
> > he hoped Julie would be supported after his death, but I cannot imagine
> he
> > though it would come so soon. Nor, from what he told me, do I think it
> will
> > be enough. His wife - I think her name is Karen - was working nights to
> > help support them, so that one of them could always be around to mind
> Julie
> > when she wasn't in school, as she cannot be left alone. They had little
> > cash to spare even with two incomes.
> >
> > I would love to see the vanagon community make a significant donation
> > through the pay it forward fund to help Bob's family at this time. Larry,
> > if you think that is appropriate, I will be happy to put in at least a
> few
> > hundred dollars. I hope anyone else who has benefited from Bob's engines,
> > his advice, or considered themselves a friend of his, will also be able
> to
> > contribute to whatever extent is feasible for you, to help his wife and
> > their other two children (both in college, I think) deal with the
> challenges
> > now facing them.
> >
> > Bob was a really good man, I'm very sorry to get this news.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Joy Hecht
>
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