Dear mike,
my deepest sympathies on the loss of your father.  Seems like death comes
rolling in on our parent's generation...

I lost a great family friend last week, and I knew it was coming, he had
non-hodskins lymphoma.  His wife was also a friend, and said he was ready
to go, and passed peacefully. This couple used to take me out for ice cream
sundaes when I was depressed. Harland was a great cook, and enjoyed feeding
everybody, he was also a doctor who retired early due to heart problems,
but, he went out to Indian reservations and brought medical help to a great
number of people who needed it. He had a little sailboat and went out every
chance he had to fish, and be at one with nature. I went out with him in
the boat sometimes in high school. When my mom died his wife betty, gave me
a lot of sage advice. mostly she was there for me when I needed a mom
figure. \



Tamar Magenta Raine
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Oakland Mayor's Commission on People with disabilities


> [Original Message]
> From: Michael Collis <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 5/3/2004 8:55:21 AM
> Subject: Hi guys...
>
> Well, I'm back home, and  my dad's funeral was good.   He served  in the
> military, so we had a military funeral with a 21 gun salute and a bugler
> who played "Taps."
>
> I learned the details to my dad's death.  The aide went in and he was
> awake, aware, and joking with her,  and the aide opened the window and
> went out to get something.  When she got back, he was gone.  It was as
> if he had gone through the window. and the only thing that remained was
> the shell.
>
> I'm going to miss him, but I know he's 10,000 times more alive now than
> he was.