[Oe List ...] Elaine Richmond

[LAURELCG at aol.com]

I received this from Sharon Fisher this morning.  Blessings,  Jann
 
 
 
Sad news to share. Could you post  this on ICA/OE networks, Jann? I 
received this from Ray this  morning. 
Life is short. Be quick to love.  Make haste to be kind! 
Blessings, 
Sharon 
From: richmonder <richmonder at iinet.net.au>
Date: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at  11:58 PM
Subject: Elaine Muriel Richmond died 21/09/2010
To: RAY and  ARLISS GOFF <radd4goff at msn.com>, Sharon Fisher  
<saf1220 at gmail.com>
Cc: Hilton & Pam Scott  <scottwillow at cci.net.au>, Geoff & Dawn Richmond  
<dawnr at nelsonbay.com>, Mal & Val Richmond _vrichmon at bigpond.net.au_ 
(mailto:vrichmon at bigpond.net.au)  

To my family and colleagues in  Australia and the United States of America.
 

 
Elaine and I set off from home to  our Church at West End in Brisbane last 
Sunday afternoon and before we had gone  2 of 30 miles, I changed course for 
the local emergency hospital. Elaine was  admitted and examined and within 
45 minutes was in an ambulance headed for the  Intensive Care Unit at Mater 
Hospital in Brisbane at 90 kph.  My daughter  Sandra and I kept vigil by her 
side, talking with her on occasions between nurse  and doctor attentions, 
and on Monday and Tuesday we sang her favourite song "The  Rose". Elaine died 
at 9:30pm Tuesday 21st September following a mostly conscious  journey with 
pain management attended by her magnificent doctor specialists  and nurses 
and the faith of a saint in adversity.
 

 
I have now returned home to an empty  house and I know I will need help and 
seek it.  Sandra, Karen and some  friends and I are planning a 
funeral/memorial probably for next Wednesday  one week from today at the West End 
Uniting Church and intend to send her urn of  ashes to her brother Raymond Goff in 
St. Paul MIN for a later placement with her  parents graveyard in Cable 
Wisconsin. This was her wish.
 

 
I am blessed with wonderful family  and friends and 33 years of 
companionship with Elaine; a woman of extraordinary  accomplishments and the best 
Christian Theologian and servant in the Way of  Jesus I have ever encountered.  A 
professional teacher and practitioner of  Facilitation.
 

 
Raymond & Arlis, would you  distribute this to our family in the USA p
lease, for I have incomplete  addresses. Thank you. Pam, Mal, Geoff, would you  
distribute this to others in Oz as you see fit. Thank you. Sharon  Fisher, 
would you distribute as you see fit in the Pacific Northwest. Thank  you.
 

 
Please ask for details of  funeral/memorial date at 
_richmonder at iinet.net.au_ (about:blank)  or phone  (07)3488-2300 if you are able to attend.
 

 
Ray Richmond. Cleveland,  QLD
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