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2025 MJ Bear Fellow. I express my admiration and am very gratefull for your live and your legacy.
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Mary Jane "MJ" Bear
West Des Moines, Iowa
1962 - 2010
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Send FlowersMary Jane "MJ" Bear passed away on December 17, 2010 in Seattle, Washington. She courageously battled leukemia for seven months. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in Des Moines, Iowa. Burial will follow at Glendale Cemetery. She was a...
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I'm so sorry to hear about MJ's death. We worked together at NPR and I knew her for many years - wonderful creative soul. I did not know she also had Des Moines roots. My thoughts are with her entire family. - Vickie Nauman
Vickie Nauman
December 29, 2010 | Los Angeles, CA
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In the short time I knew MJ, I was so impressed and thrilled. So very sorry for her loss. A truly dynamic person whose work will live on. Laura Brumm
December 27, 2010
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I am shocked by the news. I send my condolences. The Bear family is in my thoughts.
Lee Cranberg
December 22, 2010 | Boston, MA
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god bless her. she s be loved person. i m sorry
serap
December 22, 2010 | Istanbul, VA
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MJ had a profound impact on my life and career. She was truly a visionary, and led more "life" in her short number of years on earth than many people do in twice as many. My thoughts go out to her family.
Valerie Nozick
December 21, 2010 | Atlanta, GA
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May the love of friends and family carry you through your grief.
Rebecca Sorter
December 20, 2010 | Des Moines, IA
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What a wonderful daughter. So sorry, Jeanette.
Marguerite Boss
December 20, 2010
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You are in my prayers and am sorry to hear of your loss. An old neighbor of 51st.
Lee Clayton
December 20, 2010 | Nashville, TN
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