Laura Ellen Northcutt

January 19th 2020:
As I sit here reading Laura's obituary, balling my eyes out.
I had been thing about Laura's birthday coming up on the 24th, and thinking about calling heron her birthday. I googled her name and found devistating news.
Whether she knew it or not, she was a part of my life... she is the first girl I ever kissed. We lived acrross the street from each other in Wright City Mo., We were in 1st grade together. We had a tractor tire sand box in our back yard, that the...

I had the privilege to meet Laura back in 2003 when she started doing consultation work for Cummins Inc. Since that time, she has always greeted me with a big smile and a hug each time she visited Columbus. I had the honor of traveling to India with her on our first round of training back a few years ago. She absolutely fell in love with the people, the culture, and especially the "unclaimed" dogs that lived in the street outside of the hotel where we would stay. One in particular, she...

I met Laura about 40 yrs ago when we both took a ropes course for a weekend of fun and friendship. It was there she adopted her Newfoundland puppy she named Tugboat from a litter at the camp. I wove in an out of Laura's life for the next 4 decades. Esp enjoying a number of festive dinners at her little hobbit house on the hill. Laura had a way of making those events so magical and sublime. The sun, moon and stars will shine a bit brighter now with her effervescent light added to them. One of...

Laura was talented, beautiful, intelligent, and possessed a delightful sense of humor. Her zest for life was animated by a love of nature, cats and dogs, music, and cooking. A friendship with Laura brought light into your world. Laura Northcutt seemed a compassionate angel bound to earth. Now she is free of quotidian burdens, journeying on an astral plane we can only imagine. Farewell and Godspeed sweet angel!

We have lost one of the most lovely and loving persons we have ever known. If I am sure of anything right now, it is that any love Laura ever carried for anyone never ebbed. Not with time or distance or silence. We can only be grateful that we knew her, loved her and feel her love still.

I met Laura on the dance floor with Rich Hill & the Riffs making us move. We danced for decades at the NOLA Jazz Fest, Evil Monkey BBQs, & at various local gigs. She was the friend who would drive me across town to see my doctor when I was sick, bring me soup & kind words. She brought light into every room she entered. How wonderful to know such a spirit. Miss you. Love you.

I met Laura at my first job out of college - Crittenton Center . She was such an inspiration, role model and friend . I followed her to Wildwood Outdoor Education Center where I met my husband Richard whom she had already befriended . She was my Maid of Honor, my son's godmother, and such a huge part of my early adult life . Though our lives took separate paths I will never forget her warm, loving nature, impish smile and contagious laugh . She will be greatly missed.