GERTRUDE "Trudy" STANCHFIELD

It’s been two years!! Oh, right, 2020 doesn’t count! Bless all of you family members! Joan

Eric and Family,

I happened on to the obituary for Trudy, and I was sad to discover she has passed away. Such a lovely woman. She hosted me once and so briefly, she probably didn't even recall me. But I remember her so well and so fondly. She was remarkable.

Has it been a year!!?? Time flies as you age. I was just looking at the postcard of the African American museum on the mall Trudy sent me a few years ago.

I first met Trudy 45 years ago when she visited her son, Eric, in Madison, WI. We had a kinship and understanding having both lived in Vienna. My father had also fled the Nazis, but from Czechoslovakia in 1940, arriving penniless is NYC and going to college, Baker U, on scholarship.
Trudy was always helpful and happy to share in my family's development. She babysat for our first child in 1980 after arranging for us to rent her neighbor's house for six weeks. She (& my father) attended...