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Michael Levy Obituary
MENOMONIE - Michael M. Levy, 66, of Menomonie died Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire. Arrangements are pending at Olson Funeral Home in Menomonie.
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SRK
November 5, 2022
His kindness is remembered.
May his memory be a blessing to all.
Yehi zichra baruch.
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David Lenander
April 30, 2017
Mike Levy joined the Rivendell Discussion Group of the Mythopoeic Society at the U of MN within its first few years, arriving, I think, with fellow English grad student Pat Hodgell. After completing his PhD, he was off to Menomenie, WI, and UW-Stout, and I don't know if we ever saw him again at a regular discussion, except perhaps for some meetings that were convened at local conventions, Minicon, Diversicon, or at Wiscon. We had heard him read at least one chapter of his PhD dissertation on 17th C. "fairy poetry," _The Transformations of Oberon_. A bit later, he was a participating writer in the writers' circle started by Eleanor Arnason and Ruth Berman, later known as the "Aaardvarks."
But we'd run into Mike and Sandy at those conventions, and via email and even through the regular post office--Mike was always a responsive and helpful expert who understood us in a context of a conversation that had begun at the U of MN but was still in some sense continuing. Mike was an enormous help to me when I rashly decided to refer the papers for Mythcon XXIV in '93--he was my backup guy whenever one of my other expert readers fell through, and he often read and thoughtfully commented on the papers within just a few days. And of course, we could rely upon him to fill in on any convention panel. For his many appearances on "what do I read next" or those panels on what good books he'd read this year, he would always thoughtfully provide handouts, too. On a more personal level, I remember him sharing a few pertinent stories about Miriam growing up when I talked about our daughter. In so many ways he was reassuring and steadying just because he'd already been there, done that. He'd read all of the right books, and 20 more that he could recommend, but always seemed to have patience to listen to me, really following some pathway he'd already taken.
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