Delores Pander

Dear Henk, Debbie, Mary Alice, and all your family.

It's very hard to believe that a year has gone by since Delores' passing. I know this has been the hardest year of all of your lives. Sending you all my best thoughts at this time along with a Haiku I wrote that seems to fit Delores' spirit.

HAIKU (17 syllables)
FALL-COLUMBIA GORGE
Yellow, green, orange, red.
The Falls, crystal clear.
Sunset sky, coral streaked.

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Dear Deborah and Mary Alice, I cried for your loss! I love you both very much. Heart & soul

DebraMarie Howland

MEMORIES IN MEMORY OF DELORES ROONEY PANDER
From Marel Kalyn.

It is with great sadness that I send condolences to the family of Delores Rooney Pander on her passing: namely, her husband, Henk Pander, her daughter, Debbie, her granddaughter, Mary Alice, and her step-sons, Jacob and Arnold Pander. To clarify my relationship with Delores, she was the loyal wife of, and gave unconditional love to, her husband, Henk Pander, who was also my first husband and the father of our two...

Dear Sissy,
You are just as beautiful as I remembered. The description 'graceful, intelligent, kind and hardworking' is so appropriate. You were a role model and so much more to me as I grew up. When I was about age 12, you were the first person to tease my hair, and then sent me to church with a Jackie Kennedy hairdo!

We lost touch over the years but the joy of knowing you will remain with me forever, "Sis". I will always hold fond memories of you, your two brothers, and...

I was so sad to learn of Delores's death. I remember her laughing and smiling just as in this photo, on the McKenzie River in the late 90s, during a Flight of the Mind week. I loved running into her in odd places around town.

I am saddened by this news. I will remember all the times Delores and I laughed together and the years we spent working together.