[Magdalen] R.I.P. Melinda Hanna

[Marion Thompson]

Sorry to hear about your friend Melinda.  The loss of old friends cuts 
deep.  May all who love her be comforted.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 1/11/2017 11:42 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> My old friend Melinda Hanna died yesterday evening, I knew it was imminent
> as she had come home from Vanderbilt on hospice care, but not quite this
> imminent. She was in liver and kidney failure and the doctors had told her
> family there was nothing more they could do.
> Pray for comfort for her daughter Allison, Allison's husband Tim and their
> daughter Gracelyn.
>
> Melinda and I met many years ago when she used to visit my next door
> neighbor Mary. Allison was a toddler then, and she and my Adam, who was
> just a couple of weeks younger, made friends through the chain link fence
> between our yards. Soon he was going around the fence to play with her. A
> couple of years later, Melinda and I were pregnant together, and her Joey
> was born not long after my Betsy. The kids all went to school together but
> kind of lost touch after high school, although I think Adam and Allison ran
> into each other occasionally, as Melinda and I also did. Melinda had a fall
> or something and damaged several discs in her back a number of years ago
> and had been disabled ever since. She walked with a cane and had been
> increasingly limited in her activity.
>