[Magdalen] Prayer Request, RIP John White and prayers for Brooke

Kate Conant kate.conant at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 16:36:05 UTC 2017


Praying on the Blue Ridge now.

"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> My friend Brooke White's husband John died at 4:30 am today. It has been a
> long hard journey for them for the past two years since John's heart attack
> and open heart surgery. He really never recovered well and finally only
> came home from the VA nursing home a couple of weeks ago....only to get
> sick again last week and be rushed to the hospital.
>
> I've known Brooke and John for 30+ years. We were members of the same
> church. John was a big, taciturn sort of guy who I never knew very well. I
> only found out in more recent years that he was a Vietnam veteran who was
> severely affected by Agent Orange which caused him to have serious health
> problems, many of them affecting his lungs and liver. Brooke is the kind of
> person we all know from church, the one who does the jobs no one else will.
> She's also tough and vocal and a fighter. But in the last 3 years she has
> lost her two older children, a daughter to a misdiagnosed and poorly
> treated respiratory illness and a son to a drug overdose, and now her
> husband. She will need a lot of prayer going forward. She has one married
> daughter left and a big house to deal with.
>


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