[Magdalen] RIP Donald Stanfield.

[Marion Thompson]

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

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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.