Our paths had crossed several times: we were both from Pueblo, but didn't know each other then. My mother knew of her father, though. Then both our families moved to Denver, where we met at TJ and discovered our Pueblo connection. When we went off to college, she went to Willamette University in Salem, OR (she roomed with Linda Bayer) and we saw each other a couple of times since I went to Oregon College of Education, which is a few miles from Salem. We graduated, she got married and went to California, and we lost touch for a few years. I then moved to California, and we re-connected briefly. Again, we lost touch, but became Facebook friends some time later and have stayed mostly in touch for a number of years. She had a stroke several years ago and was forced to retire from her beloved teaching career. She was a kind and caring person who leaves a large extended family. Ray