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Stephen M. Rickert
December 13, 2022
Grete Hale and I used to exchange Christmas cards every year. She filled her card with some much news about her life each year that I would joke with my wife Peggy, "By comparison it feels as if we didn't do anything significant this past year!"
Grete's late husband Reginald was my godfather who attended my christening in early 1943 in Washington, D.C. on the day before he joined the U.S. Army.
I was so glad that my wife Peggy and I had lunch with Grete and her niece Kelley in New York City in the late 1990s.
I read the book "The Life & Times of G. Cecil Morrison: The Happy Baker of Ottawa", which Grete and Reggie put together. What a great, resourceful father! I can imagine how great her pride about her father must have been. I remember seeing him at a Moral Re-Armament assembly center when I volunteered working in the food storeroom handling Morrison-Lamothe loaves of bread. Incidentally, I can’t believe the stupendous cake she made for Canada’s centennial in 1967. Grete and I each were related to U.S. revolutionary army officers who spent the winter of 1777-78 in Valley Forge, PA with George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and my ancestor's first cousin, Aaron Burr.
Sarah Hicks
November 10, 2022
As a young person visiting the house, Grete's positive and pointed questions about what we were studying or working on - and more importantly the impact of that work - always made me stand a bit taller and think more carefully about my words and actions. My dad always said that Grete was the best Chair he'd ever met - always seeking out opinions and voices around the table. May we all strive to have even a small percent of the impact of Grete in her long life.
Paula Agulnik
November 5, 2022
Have wonderful memories of Grete and her generous support of non-profit and charitable organizations for the past many decades.
Our deepest sympathy to her family .
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