Winifred Hope Tailer-Chrobak

KNOWNING I HAD USED MANY POEMS FROM "THE GIFT OF WONDER", I FOUND THE POEM THAT EXPRESSED MY THOUGHTS.

HOPE THE POEM IS COMFORT FOR MANNY & YOUR FAMILY.

THOUGHT OF WINNIE'S SMILE.


TO ONE NO LONGER HERE

I NEVER THINK OF HER WITHOUT A SMILE---
AND THAT'S A RATHER SPLENDID THING TO SAY.
WHAT BETTER LEGACY COULD ONE BEQUEATH
THAN SMILES TO BRIGHTEN A LOVE ONE'S DAY?

I MISS HER, BUT I FIND WHEN...

October 19, 2004

Anne Clancy's comments on the day of Winnie's Memorial Service

Thank you all for coming today. I know Winnie would be just overwhelmed by the fact that so many people were here today to honor her.

A few days after Winnie's passing I was walking down Beacon Street in Brookline, not far from where I live. I passed a store named Bowl and Board. Out in front of the store were two beautiful rocking chairs. From their hanging price tags...

Winnie and I became friends through adversity --she with her illness and I with the suicide of my husband.

She was so perceptive, so very warm, and so funny. I think she was the only woman (other than my mother) to whom I said "I love you."

I wish I could have helped her heal the way she helped me, but there were other plans for Winnie. Now she is in my heart and in my mind, still helping me, still calming my fears, giving me advice, and laughing with me.
...

In Memory of Your Loved One,

Winifred Hope Tailer-Chrobak,

a book has been placed as a living memorial in The Church Library of First Baptist Church of Brunswick by The Berean Bible-Fellowship Sunday School Class.

An appropriate inscription has been made in the front of the book.

Manny's Comments for Winnie's Memorial Service
First Parish Church Unitarian Universalist, Northborough, MA
September 18, 2004

Thank you all for coming today to help us celebrate Winnie's life. In addition to being my wife, Winnie was my soul mate and my best friend. Her life was devoted to caring for other people. She loved people. Winnie was the single sweetest person I have ever known.

Winnie almost always put others first. For me the most...

Winnie

She was a sister, an aunt, a niece, a cousin, a daughter, a wife and step-Mom.

She was a co-worker, a supervisor, a manager and a mentor to many.

Was she your neighbor?

She was best friend to Anne Clancy and she was best friend to Manny.

She loved watching others succeed and was great at offering encouragement.

We will never really know how many people she touched.

Her tender, ways...

I have just learned the sad news of our loss of dear Winnie. I send heartfelt condolences to Manny and her family.

As an overseas cousin I had not seen Winnie for many years but her charm, warmth and effervescent spirit will be with me always. Winnie and I shared a great adventure in 1970 when we travelled together on a PanAm flight from Philidelphia to London where I was starting work for Smith Barney and Winnie was visiting her grandmother, dear Cammie. I remember taking her...

Our thoughts and prayers will be with you all an this Memorial Service for Winnie Tailer-Chrobak. Our love and prayers will especially be for my beloved cousin Winnie.

Winnie was always a wonderful person with great spirit and joie de vivre. She gave so much of herself to the world around her, to her family and friends and to those who needed help.

I particularly remember Winnie at our family reunions at Bayonet Farm in Holmdel, New Jersey. She was bubbly and fun...

A light has gone out in this world. Winnie brought joy, a loving nature, sweetness, courage, a zest for life, a little bit of zaniness, and a lot of optimism to all of us who were lucky to be her friend. She was genuinely interested in those she loved and her heart knew no bounds. I am going to miss her giggle, her impishness, her sense of adventure, and her devoted spirit.