[Oe List ...] Elaine Richmond

[Sarah Buss]

Ray,
Count me among  your oldest of friends, sitting with you in your  
lonelyness. We think of Elaine with endless memories to no avail,  
little consolation. You will be in my prayers as you journey on.
Love and kindness,
Sarah

On Sep 22, 2010, at 2:15 PM, LAURELCG at aol.com wrote:

> 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
>
>
> 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  
> please, 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 or phone (07)3488-2300 if you are able to  
> attend.
>
>
> Ray Richmond. Cleveland, QLD
>
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