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for Marina Berkovich
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Marina Berkovich
February 27, 2013
Please accept my sincerest condolences on your loss.
Carol Avins
February 25, 2013
Remarks at Marina's funeral, February 21, 2013
My husband Ray and I met Marina--and Gary, Lana, and Stan (whom we miss today, as always)--right after they arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1977. We had mutual friends in Moscow who had given them our phone number. We started talking--and kept on talking. This morning I want to share a few more words with you.
Marina knew how to make things beautiful--on a table, in a room, in a landscape. She understood where things belonged, and where they would flourish. In design, and in relation to other people, she knew how to cut through the extraneous and get to the essence. She had a gift for tuning into people--and that insightfulness had something to do with how it was that our families so quickly became such close friends.
One image came to mind this week when I was thinking about Marina's gift for understanding, and for friendship. Lilacs grew in profusion along the street in front of Gary and Marina's Deerfield house. A visit at just the right time in spring would always end with Marina cutting huge clusters of lilacs for us to take home. I can see her wielding the shears and reaching high, making sure we had all that she wanted to give.
Marina knew how to make things beautiful, and she was beautiful--and tough, strong in her devotion to Leyla and Jaime, to Stan and Lana, to Gary, to all those whom she loved.
A few days ago, when I said goodbye to Marina after a visit, she gathered her strength and said something that illustrated her ability to put aside sentiment to tell the unvarnished truth: "This is bizarre." And then she added another sentence, a question, that Lana helped me to make out: "Who would have thought that such a thing could happen?"
We are stunned; we are bereaved; we are grateful for having Marina in our lives. We will always feel her loss.
February 21, 2013
Extending my sincere condolence to family and friends , may cherished memories soon replace the sadness you feel at time.
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