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From: "Deb Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:55 PM
Subject: [Ann-update] Some Announcements and Other Things Regarding Ann 
McCay


Hello everyone:
First, thank you so much for your kindness to us in these past few days. It 
has been such an emotional roller coaster. Of course there's joy and relief 
knowing that Ann has finally gone home to be with our Lord and her immense 
trials are over. But there is also the loss of my friend and the finality of 
the entire situation. Still, each day is better and I am very glad to have 
had my friendship with Ann for these 37 years. I have quite a bit of 
information for you which I wanted to get out as quickly as possible.

Memorial Services:
There will be a service in Nashville this Sunday afternoon. Ann's brother 
contacted all of you who I thought could even remotely attend this service, 
but if you weren't contacted and want that information you can obtain it 
from Ray McCay at [log in to unmask] I know that several of you will be 
going and this will really encourage Ann's mom.

Memorial Service in Seattle:
Please mark your calendars for Saturday July 11 at noon for a service and 
lunch to honor and remember Ann. Here are the details:
Saturday July 11 starting at noon.
Northwest Church
15555 15th Ave. NE
Shoreline, WA 98155
Please RSVP so we can get an approximate head count for the lunch. It's 
going to be really fun for everyone who can come.

We will record the audio of the service and stream it for those who cannot 
attend. But I don't know of a way to get the fabulous food and fellowship to 
you if you're not there. If you're coming from out of town or need any 
assistance, please let me know and we'll do our best to help with any 
arrangements.

Pictures and Stories:
If you've got pictures or video of Ann we'd like to borrow it. Please write 
to me at [log in to unmask] and we'll work out the logistics. If you've 
got a story about Ann and won't be at the service to share it, please feel 
free to email it to me. And if you'd like to record your message as an MP3 
or other audio format we'd be glad to include that when we stream the online 
version of the memorial. If someone has a good phone patch maybe we can 
stream recorded phone calls as well. Lots of ways for you to participate. 
And more if we can think of them.

Memorial Contributions:
Ann didn't want any flowers etc. She would like donations made as follows:

Northwest Church
15555 15th Ave. NE
Shoreline, WA 98155
The church has many community ministries to meet the real needs of those in 
our community, and supports Ann's primary mission that everyone should know 
Jesus Christ.

Christian Relief Fund
Box 19670
Amarillo, TX 79114-1670
CRF supports aids orphans in Africa and was a very important ministry to 
Ann.

Ann's burial:
Ann is being cremated and will be buried on the church grounds with a tree 
planted in memoriam. She wanted to be placed at the church rather than being 
sent somewhere that wasn't important to her. We're glad she'll be there too 
so we can stop and remember her under her tree. It's a beautiful spot.

What about this list?
We're almost done with our journey together. I have one more thing to do in 
addition to taking us through the services this weekend and in July. I'm 
reading through all the updates and writing all the things I didn't write at 
the time. It's a bit gritty at times, but I will invite you to share it when 
it's finished in about a week I think. We'll post it to our web site so that 
you can read it or not as you're comfortable with it.

There's probably more to say about Ann's final hours and other recent events 
but I think I'm saving that for the consolidated update since I know these 
are things  that can be very upsetting to read. I'm glad I could be with 
Ann. I'm glad I could serve her these past three years. And we've enjoyed 
getting to know so many of her friends.

More announcements coming soon I'm sure. Thank you all again for your 
kindness and love to us. Please continue to pray. I'm still very tearful and 
struggling with my overflowing emotions. But I'm very glad for Ann that she 
is free and at home.

Deb and Rick


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