Comments on: Esther’s Last Dance http://vickycollinsonline.com/2009/11/27/esthers-last-dance/ vicky@teletrendstv.com Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:06:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Vicky Collins http://vickycollinsonline.com/2009/11/27/esthers-last-dance/#comment-400 Vicky Collins Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:18:19 +0000 http://vickycollinsonline.com/?p=1137#comment-400 Hi Katherine, Thank you so much for reading my blog. I hope it gives others an opportunity to know and love Esther. I met her a number of years ago delivering Chanukkah baskets for Jewish Family Services. They gave us a list of shut ins to visit and my children and I visited Esther. There was an immediate connection and I recall sending an email to an old friend saying I had just fallen in love. Esther was particularly tickled by the fact that I too was a Phi Beta Kappa, although the accomplishment didn't mean anything to me like it meant to Esther. Over the years she told me her stories and I spoke with her, wrote letters and visited. It got hard as her hearing failed. I am so grateful that Sylvia told me of her accident and I got to spend some time with her at Shalom Park before she passed away. I stopped in to see her every day. The last day I came to visit, on Wednesday, she just didn't wake up. I hope to meet her other friends at the funeral. Thanks for all you did to care for her. Best, Vicky Hi Katherine,
Thank you so much for reading my blog. I hope it gives others an opportunity to know and love Esther. I met her a number of years ago delivering Chanukkah baskets for Jewish Family Services. They gave us a list of shut ins to visit and my children and I visited Esther. There was an immediate connection and I recall sending an email to an old friend saying I had just fallen in love. Esther was particularly tickled by the fact that I too was a Phi Beta Kappa, although the accomplishment didn’t mean anything to me like it meant to Esther. Over the years she told me her stories and I spoke with her, wrote letters and visited. It got hard as her hearing failed. I am so grateful that Sylvia told me of her accident and I got to spend some time with her at Shalom Park before she passed away. I stopped in to see her every day. The last day I came to visit, on Wednesday, she just didn’t wake up. I hope to meet her other friends at the funeral. Thanks for all you did to care for her. Best, Vicky

]]> By: Katherine Bryant http://vickycollinsonline.com/2009/11/27/esthers-last-dance/#comment-399 Katherine Bryant Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:04:20 +0000 http://vickycollinsonline.com/?p=1137#comment-399 Ms. Collins, My mother was Esther's next-door neighbor at Brooks Towers, and what she has told me about Esther's last days matches what you say here. (My mother did Esther's grocery shopping, and had been bringing her that ginger ale for years now!) Thank you for caring about Esther, and sharing your memories here. I was curious as to how you came to know Esther. I can only imagine how many people over the years have been touched by her life. Katherine Bryant Ms. Collins,

My mother was Esther’s next-door neighbor at Brooks Towers, and what she has told me about Esther’s last days matches what you say here. (My mother did Esther’s grocery shopping, and had been bringing her that ginger ale for years now!) Thank you for caring about Esther, and sharing your memories here.

I was curious as to how you came to know Esther. I can only imagine how many people over the years have been touched by her life.

Katherine Bryant

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