Genevieve Smith Whitford

My sincere sympathy at the loss of your mother. I lost my own dear mother a little over a year ago, and was looking on-line for a book of poetry I remembered called Queen Anne's Lace. I was saddened to see your mother's obituary while looking for the book. Her poems and perspectives on family were intuitive, something my mother and I enjoyed reading. The ideas stayed with me over the years and I sought them out as a source of comfort, to remind me of a very pleasant day, and life, spent...

To all the Whitfords -

I am so sorry for your loss. I know this a time of sadness for you,,but I hope you can also find some comfort in knowing that after her long and lovely life, your mother continues in you. What a wonderful legacy she leaves you - intelligence, love of the arts.
I feel that I, too, have lost a a very special woman. Her poems give me a small look into her life and make me wish I had known her and had had the opportunity to talk to her about them. ...

I first met dear Genevieve when I performed the marriage ceremony of her son Bradley to Jane Kaczmarek in 1992. I loved her immediately. I found such clear and simple wisdom in her books of poetry and have given probably 30 or 40 copies to family and friends over the years, each personally signed to them by Genevieve. Whenever I was in Los Angeles I always loved visiting her and hear her tell of the latest adventures of Jane and Brad's three angels - Frances, George, and Mary Louisa. I was...