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

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Praying for Brook as she navigates this difficult time and has friends who 
will be there for her in prayer and in person. May John rest in peace.
Lynn

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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2017 11:04 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Prayer Request, RIP John White and prayers for Brooke

> 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.