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Charles & Elena Loomis Obituary
Letters to our Parents ~
Elena Rosario Delgado Rodas Loomis ~ October 30, 1921 - February 18, 2022
Dear Mommy
You were our Mother, Mom, Mommy, Momma, Mama', Ma, Mutti, Grandma & Great Grandma. We miss the sound of your voice and your laughter. We miss the touch of your hand & your beautiful smile. We miss being able to share our lives with you. We miss being able to turn to you for advice. You filled our lives with delight and you were one of our best friends. We are grateful to have been your children. Most of all we are grateful that you are at peace now, happy with Dad and all your dearly loved ones who passed before.
Charles Clark Loomis ~ February 26, 1921 - July 14, 2011
Dear Father
We knew you by so many names each of us calling you something different: Father, Dad, Daddy, Pa, Pop, Grandpa and our dear Mother knew you as Clark.
To all of us you were a strong man with a kind and loving spirit, a great sense of humour and a gentle soul. We all miss you so much, but as each day passes we are reminded of all that you left behind and the gifts that you gave us shall live on in us forevermore. We feel so fortunate and so blessed to have had you in our lives and we are honoured to carry on your legacy.
We love you both always,
Your family,
Tom, Chuck, Bob, David, Mimi, Elaine, Dylan, Sally, Charlie, Lucy, Summer, Jonathan, June, Mavis, Laurence, Julie, Hannah, Elenita, Martha, Abe, Nora, Adriana, Dennis, Dustin, Wendy, Genevieve, Everhett and your loving wife, friend and partner for 68 years, Elena
Born: Feb 26, 1921
Died: Feb 18, 2022
31 Entries
Tom, David & Mommy - (3/2018)
June 5, 2022
Mommy & me - (4/16/2016)
June 5, 2022
Great Grandpa Delgado and Mommy - On the Big horse with her Father!
April 8, 2022
Mommy & Daddy 1981
April 7, 2022
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Mommy's Vegetables - The Gardener!!!
April 7, 2022
Just Born! - Great Grandma & Genevieve
April 6, 2022
The Sierras - The Crossing!
April 6, 2022
April 6, 2022
Mom and Dad 1945
April 6, 2022
September 14, 2011
September 14, 2011
September 14, 2011
September 14, 2011
September 14, 2011
September 14, 2011
HIkers!
September 14, 2011
September 14, 2011
Brothers
September 14, 2011
Daddy GQ
August 23, 2011
Playing!
August 23, 2011
A Boy and His Dog
August 23, 2011
Being 7 - (1928) - School!
August 23, 2011
Up High - Great Grandpa's Shoulders
August 23, 2011
A Mother's Love - (1921) - Great Grandma & Daddy
August 23, 2011
Welcome To the World - (1921) - Great Grandpa and Daddy
August 23, 2011
"Camel Rock" - "Camel Rock", on the way from Los Alamos to Santa Fe, where we often stopped for lunch!
April 21, 2022
Tom Loomis
March 22, 2013
Dear Dad,
I'm writing to begin my own project of sharing memories I have of you which even my own brothers and sister cannot know unless I do this, because, of course, I was born first, and so experienced things which they could not have seen. This is the first of many such letters.
My earliest memory of you is actually of the sound of your shoes, as you walked down the hall towards me (and, presumably, Mom) in the apartment building where we lived in Cambridge, Mass. The sound they made was quite distinct; I labelled it the "oo-nah, oo-nah, oo-nah" sound. I don't know how old I was, but I do remember realizing that your shoes made a very individual sound (Mom's didn't sound at all the same). So from that time on I would look for the sound you made when coming home. I was small (I turned 5 years of age only after we left Cambridge to move out west to Los Alamos, so at this point I must have been maybe three years old). I liked that sound; it made me feel good.
Another clear memory, also from that period in my life, is of you taking me with you to where you must have worked as a physicist. (there were lots of electrical devices there, wires and such). The floors were wooden. I remember you lighting a piece of paper on fire, then dropping it on the floor. I was scared and protested that the floor might be set on fire. But you explained that if you stepped on the burning paper, it would go out for lack of air; then you proceeded to do just that, which, of course, put it out. This I can see as clearly as if it happened yesterday. And so I learned that fires needed air (years later, I learned more specifically, oxygen) to persist; take that away, and they go out.
A third clear memory, also from that day in the lab, is of a large (to me) "electromagnet" (I remember you called it that; that was how I learned that word). You made a point of showing me that nothing would "stick" to it (some nuts, bolts, screws, and at least one screwdriver). Then you also made a point of showing me a switch, which you pushed from one position to another. After that, LOTS of things would "stick" to the electromagnet, in a long string, starting with the screwdriver. Then you let me push the switch into the other position (i.e "off"), and everything promptly fell off. I was quite impressed! Then you let ME turn it on, stick things to it (or rather, move them in close; the magnet then "grabbed" them out of my hands), and then turn it off again, whence everything promptly fell to the floor just as before. Except this time, you showed me that the screwdriver somehow "kept" a little bit of the ability to pick up the lighter of the other things -- for example, a screw, or a nut, or a nail. This produced a life-long fascination with magnetism for me.
I have always treasured these memories, and many others which I will share with the rest of the world as time permits, starting now (3/22/13). You were a terrific Dad. I shall always miss you.
Love, Tom
3/22/2013
February 26, 2013
Dear Daddy
Happy Birthday to you - you are in our hearts - we love you
Mimi
Mimi
December 25, 2011
Dear Daddy
Our first Christmas without you and yet you are everywhere, most of all in our hearts. We love you dearly - Merry Christmas
Charles C & Elena R Loomis, Feb 17, 2007
Thomas Loomis
August 14, 2011
Dad and Mom as seen by their iMac early in 2007!
Thomas Clark Loomis
July 18, 2011
Best Dad I could ever have had! I'll miss you, pa!
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