{"id":82,"date":"2010-06-26T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-06-26T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T04:42:00","slug":"in-loving-memory-margie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"In loving memory: Margie"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday June 23 we lost an amazing woman who I was lucky enough to call my gramma-in-law, Margie.<\/p>\n

She leaves quite the legacy: Born in 1918, she was educated at the University of West Virginia, served during WWII at the Pentagon and was a career secretary serving the education system. She leaves behind two children, four grandchildren (and a granddaughter-in-law!), and three great grandchildren.<\/p>\n

I met Margie around 2001 when my husband and I started dating. The most amazing thing, though, was that she and my own grandma were friends before Kevin and I got together! They happened to live in the same rest home facility and would play bridge together! Margie was the resident journalist and actually interviewed my grandma for one of their monthly newsletters before I had even met her.<\/p>\n

She was so incredibly welcoming to me and I will never forget that about her. I also will never forget all of the visits me and Kevin made to her apartment where we\u2019d sit around and look through her old photo albums (which she put together and wrote captions for beautifully) and I\u2019d write down notes as she told stories about the photos. Kevin\u2019s been working on saving all of the hundreds of photos digitally and transferring the originals to an archival photo album for posterity. Now that she\u2019s passed, we\u2019re going to make a huge effort to get them done before the funeral.<\/p>\n

She and her husband Neal made a home up here in Northern California so he is buried in Half Moon Bay and she\u2019ll be buried right alongside him. Today Kevin and I decided to spend this extremely rare Saturday that Kevin didn’t have to work visiting the cemetery and paying our respects.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The grounds are absolutely beautiful, including this huge waterfall<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And as we were driving along we happened to see a deer running through the grounds!<\/span>
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\"\"<\/a>I think she sticks around because of the “free food” that people leave for her \ud83d\ude09<\/span>
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Kevin’s grandpa Neal and his great-grandparents (Margie’s parents Gladys and Dale) are all buried in the Veteran’s yard.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A beautiful statue that overlooks all who have passed and are laid to rest there<\/span>
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\"\"<\/a>Kevin’s great-grandparent’s headstone<\/span>
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\"\"<\/a>A carnation (his favorite flower) for Kevin’s grandpa Neal<\/span>
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\"\"<\/a>The two headstones beneath a lone tree<\/span>
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The family will be heading up here in the next few weeks to lay Margie to rest. It is a beautiful cemetery that we will definitely be making trips down to more often to always keep Margie and her family in our thoughts because she was such a big part of Kevin’s life and had quickly become a big part of mine as well.<\/p>\n

Margie\u2013you are loved dearly and will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of my favorite photos–the three of us at our wedding in July ’06<\/span>
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On Wednesday June 23 we lost an amazing woman who I was lucky enough to call my gramma-in-law, Margie. She leaves quite the legacy: Born in 1918, she was educated at the University of West Virginia, served during WWII at the Pentagon and was a career secretary serving the education system. She leaves behind two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}