Shirley Bill Hester Schell

At breakfast Shirley would assess a day by the amount of blue skies she saw through her daughter Suzanna´s kitchen window in Cambridge. She lived many years in Oklahoma -maybe that´s why. After Shirley left us for bluer skies, I processed her absence by painting, Suzanna now owns my "In Search of Blue Skies"

I was a neighbor On E. Park Place. I have some memories of Susanna and Billy I am now 75. I always thought your mom with some thing of a character as a teenager. In 1968 while starting graduate school I became an instructor at Dell tech where I Again met Shirley. I was them 23 and she would’ve been 43. We were both single. I had a crush on her. I tried to get her to go out with me she was older and wiser and wouldn’t do it even though we did like each other. I learned so much more about her...

Enjoyed many meals with Shirley at Suzanna’s and her last birthday (photo). Breakfast with Shirley meant endless coffee with two newspapers -Globe + Times -while she assessed the sky for sufficient quantities of blue. It had to be blue! We knew breakfast was over when she got up to return to her home down the hall then recited her version of classic poem that challenged us with “I was in paradise, but they threw me out”. Go not gentle into that good night, Shirley: we’re holding you in the...