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

[Nancy Lanphear]

Dear Ann,

Fred and I read your message with deep sadness.  It is as if Michael were
part of our ALS support group and has passed on just as 5 of our friends
have in the past year.

How difficult to loose a husband and father, such pain to loose two sons and
a wife.  In the midst of the pain, we celebrate Michael's life and death and
light our candle for all of the family.

With love,

Nancy and Fred

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Ann Shafer <asgoodasitgets at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  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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