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Thinking back on the year, like most networks do, the outstanding fact of many losses of island and island relations seems daunting. I started to compile a list... and I may have forgotten some, so please feel free to add them...
Let us remember:
Liz Niehaus
Rod Nackerman
Chad Wood
Donna Gillespie
Barb Schwartzfisher
Robert Gillespie
Jim Stambaugh
Marv Ruis
Bud Cruickshank
Rick Nank
Don Vyse
Lawrence McDonough
LaDonis Mooney
Mary Ann Omer
Thelma Johnson
Anna May Maxwell nee Connaghan
Fr. Tony Majkrowski
Personally, I also lost my Aunt Eileen Rohlfing and a good friend, Evelyn Hoffman. Other BI folks I know who have lost loved ones, not connected to BI add another 4.
Let us pray for all those loved ones lost and for the families and friends left behind. It's been quite a year.
Donald McCafferty and Karen Pischner Campbell
Thanks for posting this- it definitely should give us all pause to remember to be kind to one another because you never know what tomorrow may bring. Thoughts and prayers to all the families of these wonderful people that were called to heaven!
Nita Ricksgers
Mary Ann Palmer Ferguson
Michael H. Wekenman (Drywall Mike)
Joe McCann
George Ricksgers
Mark Ricksgers
Keith Martin
Bruce Struik
Delores Gallagher
Marty McNamara
Fr. Gabe Fox
Gives me a heavy heart to read these names. Sending love and hope to everyone that was touched by all these losses. Hopefully 2016 will be a healthy happy year for all