Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:15:30 -0700
Reply-To: aatransaxle <daryl@AATRANSAXLE.COM>
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From: aatransaxle <daryl@AATRANSAXLE.COM>
Subject: Re: Boston Bob's family - please help
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Jim of Bostig and I are trying to set up a fund for Karen for the short
term needs they have.
Need some help with someone who has the knowledge of how to do that.
Larry Chase has his PIF fund which is informal, but works very well.
I would be more than willing to be the go between....
Daryl of AA Transaxle
(425) 788-4070
aatransaxle.com
86 Syncro Westy..Happy the Camper
Zetec in the trunk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy Hecht" <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 7:22 AM
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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