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Date:         Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:55:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Andrew Martin <campahvan@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Andrew Martin <campahvan@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Boston Bob's family - please help
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <6e95da690810240722q2acbf667r8d3745b1f230f854@mail.gmail.com>
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Count me in.

Andrew Bainbridge Island WA

-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Joy Hecht Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 7:23 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Boston Bob's family - please help

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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