[Magdalen] RIP Donald Stanfield.

[Clarissa Canning]

Wow . It’s always good to hear cancer had not spread further. Hope his
transition goes well . The fun thing about working full-time at 60 I find
muscles I didn’t t know I had ... an ache pains , wierd ways of walking
after a shift . Often take naps . Good having my son to help around house ,
he out does his Dad.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:29 PM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My brother, Arthur, and I are at the sharp end of the stick.  I’m 80 and
> he’s 87 and just last week he had his left arm amputated to, we hope,
> remove the cancer for at least as long as matters.  It’s nowhere else in
> his body.  Of course he is left-handed, but the sarcoma in the bicep was
> affecting the nerve to the hand, leaving it pretty numb and useless
> anyway.  We MacRaes are tough and he is in St. John’s Rehab here healing
> and learning to live lopsided.  As a priest, a still-active Honorary
> Assistant at his church, he is figuring out how to celebrate with one hand.
>
> Nobody left but us chickens, although our children have reproduced.  I
> have three first cousins on my mother's side but Art and I outrank them in
> age by some margin.  On my dad’s side, only he had children.  His married
> brother was childless.  His sister never married.  But they all lived a
> long time, 90’s, and my aunt made 100.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: cantor03--- via Magdalen
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:44 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Cc: cantor03 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] RIP Donald Stanfield.
>
> My Cousin Connie and I are both in our 80's. and there is no one else
> close toour generation left in the family centers in the Upper Midwest.  We
> talk at lengthevery week now.  We find that we are in demand for family
> events, especiallyfunerals, to make a family comment.  We are the only real
> live connection
> with the family Swedish and Norwegian immigrants, and as such we are a
> valuablecommodity.
>
> We've gone so far as to map out the funeral plots in the family cemetery.
> It was becauseof that activity that I discovered the secretary in the 97th
> General Army Hospital inFrankfurt/M, Germany, had mistakenly typed an "8"
> instead of a "3" on my Social Securitynumber on the quintessential DD214
> discharge summary of my military service.  TheArmy is "working on it."
> SSN;s were just beginning to be used in place of the militaryservice
> numbers back in the 1960's. so I guess she took a rather careless approach
> tothis form (Darn her!).
>
> David Strang.
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 3/28/2019 7:05:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:
>
> Sunrise, sunset.
>
>