[Dialogue] John Michael Stewart died Wednesday April 7, 2010

[Ann Shafer]

I have been negligent in not reporting this. Mike Stewart and his wife,
Lisa, were in the San Francisco house for a time. His father is Bob Stewart.
Preceding him in death are his mother, Pat Stewart, and his brother, my
first husband, David Stewart. Mike was 61, his birthday is April 16th. He
had ALS and a rare disease called Picks' Disease that atrophies the frontal
lobe. Due to the ALS his diaphragm was not working properly. He was wearing
one of those masks that forces oxygen at night because he was not expelling
the carbon dioxide. Lisa found him not breathing in their living room and
gave him CPR while phoning the medics on Tuesday. He coded again at the
hospital and after last rites on Wednesday they took him off the respirator
and he peacefully died. The weekend before, though he was not talking much,
the family had gathered at Mike and Lisa's home in Sonoma and Mike was alert
and smiling. Mike and Lisa have two children. Noelle Biggs and her husband
Scott live in San Francisco. John Michael Jr., John, and his wife, Simona,
also live in San Francisco and are the parents of Mike and Lisa's two
grandchildren, Giovanni Patrick (the Patrick after Pat Stewart) and
Gabriella. A rosary will be held tomorrow at 7 pm at Duggan's Funeral Home
in Daly City. Thursday the funeral will be held at Notre Dame de Victoire on
Bush Street in downtown San Francisco, interment to follow. My daughters,
Tabitha and Catherine, will be joining me in California for the services.
Mike was a computer genius. He worked for IBM who "lent" him to other
companies like the phone company and Bank of America. He and David were the
two oldest sons and were very close all their lives. Lisa tells a story that
Bob and Pat told of them losing each other in one of Bob's churches when
they were little. When one found the other behind the sacristy, they hugged
proclaiming, "My David," and "My Mike." This is the image Lisa has of Mike's
entry into the next world. 

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