[Rhodes22-list] Rummy

Sat Aug 29 13:43:23 EDT 2015

One more thing...this is a tremendous shock to all....and please understand the meaning behind my words....when our time is up.....it is a blessing to go quickly....and not to suffer through treatments and 'procedures' which may buy time but at the cost of pain and stress....and knowing the outcome is just being delayed. 

the loved ones left behind can take comfort that this was not a long, lingering death, as was my husband's and many others.....Quick is harder for us but easier for our loved one....and not one among us would wish suffering on our loved one.

so as we cry and remember, and laugh and remember, let's be grateful if he suffered little.

elle

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> On Aug 29, 2015, at 1:22 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> 
> I never met Rummy but but could hardly not know him through all the advice and friendship he offered to us all.
> There will be many holes in all the places he filled....would it be if we could go back a few days and tell him the gratitude and respect we all felt for him.
> In Rummy' s memory.....take the time to tell someone now....not when it is too late.
> If I may be first...thank you Rummy, Stan, Rose, and 'da list' for being there....
> 
> Stan, Rose, I know my thanks are at least a decade early.....but I'm trying to beat the rush....
> 
> 
> Elle
> 
> Northern Neck Images
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> 
>> On Aug 29, 2015, at 9:33 AM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't believe that he is gone!  Say it ain't so.
>> 
>> He replied to me just last Saturday morning about his experience with
>> battery terminals saying that he was delayed in getting back to me because
>> he had poor internet while on vacation.  That may very well have been his
>> final contribution to "da list".
>> 
>> At times, Rummy and I had different opinions about how to maintain or repair
>> our Rhodes 22s but he always vigorously defended his choices, occasionally
>> changing mine.  In the end, we agreed, either solution would have been just
>> as good.  He provided sage advice to anyone on the list who had a question,
>> whether a newbie or an accomplished sailor.  If he was pushed to accept
>> compensation for his efforts to help another Rhodie, he would ask only for a
>> bottle of his Mt. Gay as payment in full.  It was his generosity and free
>> interchange of ideas that built my great respect for a person I feel
>> privileged to call a friend.
>> 
>> I am pleased to have known him for so many years even though we never met in
>> person.  We had talked about getting together at the lake many times.  He
>> needed more Rhodies at Hartwell and could not understand why I continue to
>> accept a much shorter sailing season up north.  Unfortunately, my work got
>> in the way of life and I never made the trip.  Life is too short to put off
>> the really important things.
>> 
>> My heart goes out to his family.  They are in my thoughts and prayers.  I
>> pray that Rummy will always have plenty of water under his keel, fair winds
>> in his sails and a glass of Mt. Gay in his hand, wherever he may wonder.
>> 
>> Mike
>> s/v Windlass ('91)
>> Nissequogue River, NY
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 9:05 AM
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>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Rummy
>> 
>> 
>> from stan
>> 
>> I don't believe I get all the List e-mails so don't know if the lack of any
>> concerning Rummy's passing is due to my not getting such mail or because
>> none were posted due to some sort of tradition or silent respect or
>> whatever.  Not being bound by nature to any such rules:
>> 
>> Rummy had the best sense of humor of any Rhodie, OK, with one exception.
>> 
>> Rummy was the most generous and most accurate with his advise to all other
>> Rhodies, with no exception.
>> 
>> Rummy was a sometime adversary; in private always a friend in a mutual
>> admiration society.
>> 
>> Like many of old time Rhodies, I will miss him painfully.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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