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for George Gross
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Barbara ( Barton) Ivan
October 7, 2008
I know that Uncle George is with Aunt Louise now and glad they have been reunited. I can just picture them walking along the boardwalk hand in hand. They were a large part of my growing up and I have wonderful memories to hold on to. Their kindness, humor, intelligence and zest for life will never be forgotten.
Wilma Barton
October 7, 2008
I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories'.
I am besieged with painful awe at the vacuum left by the dead. Where did she go? Where is he now? Are they, as the poet James Weldon Johnson said, "resting in the bosom of Jesus?"
I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.
When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life?
Did I learn to be kinder,
To be more patient,
And more generous,
More loving,
More ready to laugh,
And more easy to accept honest tears?
If I accept those legacies of my departed beloveds, I am able to
say Thank You to them for their love and Thank You to God of their lives.
Wilma Widmaier Barton (Louise's Sister and George's Sister-iin-law)
Linda Jacobson, Alana Jacobson and Joseph Jacobson
Barbara and Tom Ivan
Helen (Michael) Lowe
October 6, 2008
Dear Nieces and Nephews of George:
Knowing how inseparable George and Louise were, it's not surprising that he has joined her so soon. I've known them both since I was a little girl and they and my family were members of Salem Methodist Church in Pleasantville (I'm now 72). They were dear friends and George, my father, Ray; my brother, Grant; and I all worked at the Atlantic City Electric Co. as well. They will be missed, we will always remember them and I look forward to our reunion on "the other side" someday. May your warm memories of your Aunt Louise and Uncle George comfort you all in the years ahead. God bless !
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