Elmira Susannah Sauberan Smyrl

During my time driving taxi for All Valley Cab it was my privilege to drive Mira many, many times. After an initial period of adjustment while I was learning where to park in her driveway, how to handle the oxygen tank, which route to take to Perkins, Frontier Pies, and later the Bamboo Garden, we became good friends.
Mira soon learned I was a political junkie and shared most of her opinions. She said she was happy to find someone halfway knowledgeable she could talk politics with as...

As my thesis advisor - 1983 - I can only say that Elmyra represented the best of things to me and the worst...only in that her sweet-stern guiding manner was dominated by both practical and deeply philosophical extremes that, without question, have profoundly affected me over my entire career and is germane to what has arisen within me to write "the book" about LOVE, TRUTH and FELLOWSHIP --- following her deeply caring and thoughtfully wise and dignified expressions. Without her...I would...

Donna I remember your mother as a very intelligent woman and loved working with her and my dog. I know she will be missed. She had "an ahead of her time" lifestyle and I respect her accomplishments. Mimi McKean Campbell