Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:05:49 +0000
Reply-To: Richard Golen <rgolen@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Richard Golen <rgolen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Boston Bob's family - please help
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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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