<div dir="ltr">Christine, I'm so sorry. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 7:44 AM Christine Hall via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">My mother, Margaret Lee Cunningham Hall, died peacefully on Saturday in <br>
the ICU at Harris Hospital in Sylva, NC. At her side was her youngest <br>
son, James, who had driven down from Western Maryland to be with her.<br>
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Christine Hall<br>
Publisher & Editor<br>
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On 7/25/19 11:45 PM, Mac McCarthy via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
> I am als the oldest of nine! (“Oversexed Cartholics,” my mother used <br>
> to!say,). Weveere fortunate in that iur parents were good parents. Thank <br>
> goodness.<br>
> <br>
> mac<br>
> <br>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 7:56 PM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz <br>
> <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hugs and godspeed.<br>
> <br>
> Tom<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On 7/25/19 12:07 PM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
> > Mother's breathing tube was pulled on Tuesday night, her vitals are<br>
> > slowly lowering, and she's being kept comfortable with the best<br>
> > hospital drugs available. At least one person from the family is<br>
> with<br>
> > her round-the-clock.<br>
> ><br>
> > I returned home last night. If she's still with us on Saturday I'll<br>
> > drive back up to do what I can to help.<br>
> ><br>
> > I saw my youngest brother James, whom I haven't seen 15 years.<br>
> ><br>
> > Christine Hall<br>
> > Publisher & Editor<br>
> > FOSS Force: Keeping tech free<br>
> > <a href="http://fossforce.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fossforce.com</a><br>
> ><br>
> > On 7/25/19 11:58 AM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
> >> I come from a large family (I'm the oldest of nine), and none of us<br>
> >> consider my mother to have been a good mom and we all recognize<br>
> that<br>
> >> the was very likely mentally ill, so thankfully I have no such<br>
> >> expectations with which to deal.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Christine Hall<br>
> >> Publisher & Editor<br>
> >> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free<br>
> >> <a href="http://fossforce.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fossforce.com</a><br>
> >><br>
> >> On 7/23/19 1:35 PM, Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
> >>> On Jul 23, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols via<br>
> Ipg-smz<br>
> >>> <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>>>> wrote:<br>
> >>>> My mom passed recently and we weren't close either, but it can<br>
> >>>> still hit you hard.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Indeed.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> There’s also the battling emotions of “Everyone expects me to be<br>
> >>> heartbroken and I don’t know what to say.” That’s how I felt after<br>
> >>> my mother-in-law died. I didn’t shed a tear, but everybody was<br>
> >>> braced for me to be upset. Dealing with their expectations was…<br>
> odd.<br>
> >>><br>
> >><br>
> ><br>
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