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FOURNIER, JANET AMY GOLDEN, (1948 - 2007), Janet Fournier passed away peacefully on September 15, 2007, after more than 2 years battling ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. She was 58 years old. She is survived by her husband Dr. Arthur Fournier, her two daughters Adrienne and Suzanne, her parents Dr. Theodore and Mrs. Marion Golden, her sister Dr. Nancy Golden, her brother Dr. William Golden, her sister-in-law Mary Fournier, and a large extended family. Janet was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor's Degree from Northeastern University in 1970, majoring in Spanish. She moved to Miami in 1973. She received her Master's Degree in Education from the University of Miami in 1988. One year later, she began teaching second grade at The Cushman School. She became a legend at Cushman during the 17 years she taught there. Janet was beloved by her family, friends, colleagues, students and their parents. There will be a celebration of Janet's life from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. outside at The Cushman School on Sunday, September 23, 2007. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to The Cushman School Janet Fournier Legacy Fund, 592 NE 60th Street, Miami, 33137. To visit this Guest Book Online, go to www.MiamiHerald.com/obituaries.
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Lanier (Lonnie) Fisher Jay passed away on September 1, 2007. Born in Texas in 1929, Lonnie was a long time resident of Bonita. She attended Sweetwater High School and graduated in 1947. Lonnie worked for the Municipal Court system of San Diego for 23 years. She is survived by her loving family: twin daughters Kaye McGreevy and Kitty Kaul; their husbands John and Doug; her four grandchildren, Michael, Amber, Marnie and Marcus, and eight great-grandchildren, Shawna, Deylon, Taylor, Ashton, Masyn, Avery, Kamdyn and Ryder. Lonnie lost her brave battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) on September 1, 2007. At her request there will be no formal services held. In lieu of flowers or other remembrances, the family requests that donations be made in Lonnie's memory to the ALS Society or to Children's Hospital. Please sign the guest book at obituaries.uniontrib.com
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RILEY James Gerald Riley, age 80, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on September 19, 2007, after a courageous battle with Lou Gehrig's disease. He was a devoted and loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend who always had a bright smile for everyone who passed his way even as his disease progressed. Jim is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Mary (Felske) and children, Mike (Connie) Riley of Grove City, Sheryl (Steve) Douglas, Rick (Anita) Riley and Don (Janet) Riley, all of Columbus and Lynda (Dave) Kowaski of Grove City; 10 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren; sister, Polly Reed of Mt. Vernon; and many nieces and nephews. Jim was a longtime faithful member of Memorial Baptist Church where he was the handyman for several years. He recently attended Immanuel Baptist Church and the worship service conducted by Pastor William Abernathy, Sr. at the Hilltop Senior Village where he and his wife reside. He was an employee of Magnetek National Electric Coil for 43 years and a Veteran WWII, U.S. Navy. Jim loved to travel and spend time with his family. Funeral service 10 a.m. Friday, September 21, 2007, at SCHOEDINGER HILLTOP CHAPEL, 3030 W. Broad St., where friends may call 5-8 p.m. Thursday and 9-10 a.m. prior to the service on Friday. Interment Green Lawn Cemetery. The family wishes to thank the staff of HomeReach Hospice and Kobacker House for their kindness and compassion. In lieu of flowers, donations may be given to Kobacker House and HomeReach Hospice. To send condolences to the family visit www.schoedinger.com. "Sign the online guestbook at www.dispatch.com/obituaries"
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LAKE LURE -- Diane Angela Sheehan, 61, died September 18, 2007. Memorial services will be private. Visitation 5-7 PM Thursday at Green Creek Baptist Church. Crowe's Mortuary is in charge.
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Philip Bowen, instrumental in museum's founding, dies
Posted by Staff Reporter Jo Mathis September 22, 2007 20:28PM


When Cynthia Yao came up with the idea for the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum back in 1978, she knew it would take many hands to make it happen.

The dream would have been hard to pull off, she said, without the help of Phillip Bowen, who volunteered to do all the legal paperwork to set it up, then served on the board and as a museum booster for years.

"He should be a beacon of how any trustee for any organization should act," said Yao, who became the popular museum's executive director. "To me, he embodied what an ideal trustee should be: a person with a very high sense of integrity who really looked out for the organization. He came through when the need was there."

Bowen, 60, died at home Tuesday after a three-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Until a couple of years ago, Bowen continued to volunteer regularly with the Interfaith Hospitality Network, which runs a family shelter, and for the Hunger Coalition.

Joe Fitzsimmons was the first museum board president. Bowen was the third.

"Phil was a critical part of the museum in those days," he said. "He was a wonderful guy, and he and Kathe (Bowen's wife) were really committed to this concept of a hands-on museum when there were not a lot of them around."

The Nebraska native and University of Michigan Law School graduate moved back to Ann Arbor in 1974 to begin his 32-year career with the law firm of Conlin, McKenney and Philbrick, P.C.

He served on many boards over the years, including those at Ronald McDonald House, The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, Washtenaw Technical Middle College, and Glacier Hills Retirement Community. He was past chairman of the Community Foundation and past president of the Ronald McDonald House.

Yao said Bowen wrote the first Kresge Foundation Grant for the museum. The grant was a major coup, awarded at a pivotal time in the museum's construction. She said Bowen was her mentor, someone she could turn to for help.

Bowen is survived by his wife and their three children.
A memorial service will be Monday at 2 p.m. at St. Clare of Assisi Episcopal Church, 2309 Packard Road, Ann Arbor, where Bowen held several leadership roles.

Contact Jo Mathis at jmathis@annarbornews.com or 734-994-6849 .

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Wilkins engineer served community with compassion
By Brian C. Rittmeyer
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, September 24, 2007


The day after David George was told in 2002 that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's Disease, he retired from his engineering career and started traveling the country with his wife.
"The doctors told us initially we could travel or do whatever we wanted to do, but we needed to do it right away," his wife, Kay George, said. "That's what we did. He retired from his job and we spent the time together."

David B. George, of Wilkins, died Friday, Sept. 21, 2007. He was 69.

Mr. George went to see a doctor after noticing he was having trouble moving some fingers. The diagnosis came within two months of that visit.

"We were all in a state of shock. He really accepted it fully at the time and never looked back," said Kay George, who was married to Mr. George for 41 years after they met through a mutual friend.
"He was a very courageous individual. He battled with ALS for five years. He just never let it get to him. He never let it get him down, and he was quite an example for other people at how well he handled this disease," she said.

Kay George said her husband had three years before his illness put him in a wheelchair. Their travels took them to Florida, Virginia, California and Arizona.

"They were places we wanted to see in our retirement," she said. "We had to hurry up and do them quickly."

Mr. George was a professional engineer in the construction industry for more than 40 years. He was active in his church, Beulah Presbyterian, and in the Turtle Creek Rotary Club, of which he was a past president.

"He was dedicated to community service. That's what Rotary's all about," said Bob Rupp, 61, of Penn, who met Mr. George 27 years ago through the club. "He was one of the individuals who was the backbone of our organization.

"I think that certain people have that caring heart, and he's one of those individuals," Rupp said.

Mr. George's interests included model railroading and collecting Matchbox cars. Kay George said her husband had an addition built on their house so his train display could take over the basement.

Lisa George, 38, of Wilkins, said her father was disciplined and had an eye for detail.

"He was a very loving and compassionate man," she said.

Survivors include his wife, Kay George; two daughters, Lisa George, of Wilkins, and Lauren Gozur of Boardman, Ohio; and one grandchild.

Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Jobe Funeral Home, Shaw and Triboro avenues, Turtle Creek. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Beulah Presbyterian Church. Burial will follow at Church Hill Cemetery.

The family asks that memorials be in the form of contributions to Beulah Presbyterian Church, 2500 McCrady Road, Pittsburgh, 15235; or MDA/ALS, 400 Penn Center Blvd., Suite 524, Pittsburgh, PA 15235.



Brian C. Rittmeyer can be reached at brittmeyer@tribweb.com or 724-779-7108.


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Every person's story teaches me a life lesson
As she stood greeting friends at Boone Funeral Home, Vicki Kindred stroked her hand across the chest of her husband, Kenny, and tried to hold back some of her tears.

After battling ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease, since January 2005, Kenny Kindred died this month. In June, the Courier & Press profiled the Kindreds, who lost their home in the November 2005 tornado, months after finding out about Kenny's illness.



For two weeks, the Kindreds allowed me to follow them as they watched the walls and roof of their new home go up. And for about four hours, the two welcomed me into their home. They shared everything with me, from how they first met to the emotions of the last two years.

Kenny Kindred had the best attitude about everything going on in his life.

"I might have the disease, but I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing," he told me. "I'm not going to let it get me down. I'm not going to lay in that bed and get stiff. That's the reason I move around."

When he was able to make it to Habitat's New Haven subdivision site during construction of his home, Kenny had everyone constantly laughing, including me. He documented the progress of the home with a video camera and took dozens of photos.

Kenny and I made a deal: We were to keep each other out of trouble. And if either of us slipped, the other person had the right to go crazy. Each time we saw each other, we made sure the other had behaved.

We always had.

The Kindreds hadn't moved into their home yet, but Kenny got to see the house, including the inside. I heard he did wheelies in his wheelchair in the center of the floor.

Kenny and Vicki Kindred were truly connected to each other. They joked with me that they'd been together for more than 300 years. As I watched Vicki look down at Kenny, dressed in a University of Kentucky sweat shirt, I saw the love she had for him and the sadness she felt.

To the entire Kindred family, I'd like to send my condolences. You shared Kenny with the entire Tri-State when you allowed us to tell your story.

I told the Kindreds thank you many times for allowing me to share their story. I realize the evening I approached them about doing it, they could have said no. But they didn't.

As a reporter, families share with us their stories at times of happiness, sadness, fear and anger. They trust us with their words, their emotions. And it's something I think about before I ever sit down and ask my first question.

I think I learn something from everyone I write about, especially stories where I have spent a lot of time with a person. From Kenny and Vicki I learned you take each day one at a time and cherish the moments of each.

And to Vicki, I say, Kenny will not be forgotten by many, including me. His laughter and smile will live on as part of the New Haven subdivision.

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Rev. Gibble loses ALS fight

September 26, 2007
By DAVE GATHMAN Staff Writer
ELGIN -- The Rev. June Gibble was remembered as "a sit-on-the-floor-with-you" mom who put together a blended, Brady Bunch -style family of six kids; a lover of books and travel; a nursery-school teacher; an editor of Sunday school books; and a hospice chaplain who comforted dying people even after she found out she was dying from one of the most dreaded diseases in the book.

Gibble's husband, the Rev. Jay Gibble, said she died at home Thursday from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. She was 70. A public memorial service, followed by a social time and visitation with the family, will be held at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren, 783 W. Highland Ave., Elgin.

Jay said June grew up in a Church of the Brethren family on a farm in Virginia. "She felt a calling from early in life to do ministry. But in this church in those days, it was rare for a woman to get a call" to pastor a church, he said. "So she came in the side door."

Concentrating on her other big passion -- to work with children -- she studied elementary education and worked as a teacher in Minneapolis. At age 40, she was divorced from her first husband. Taking her two daughters to Elgin, she found a job editing Sunday school and small-group curriculum at the Church of the Brethren General Offices here. Five years later, she married Jay, a divorcee with four children who also worked in the denominational offices.

She was almost 50 when she was ordained as a minister in 1986. She continued working as an editor and writer at the denominational offices. The past eight years found her taking part-time jobs as the minister of congregational life at Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren and as a chaplain working with the dying through the Provena Saint Joseph Hospice.

Then one black day in April 2006, she discovered she soon would be needing hospice care herself. Jay recalls that for more than a year, she had been having some trouble enunciating words. When her left hand also started feeling weak, she went to doctors. They determined she had ALS, a disease of the nerves in which more and more of the muscles in one's body stop being able to work.

During the year after her diagnosis, the family conducted several fundraisers for the Les Turner ALS Foundation. A year ago this month, 30 family members and 30 other friends and church members walked with her in the foundation's ALS Walk4Life. They wore identical blue shirts and called their team "June's J-Walkers." Later in the fall, her children and grandchildren held a bake sale and a neighborhood garage sale.

Her daughter, Brenda Morrison, said June had planned for years to write a poem, knit an Afghan and paint an acrylic painting for each of their 18 grandchildren. The onset of the disease put that into question. "But in August, with her last ability to hold a paintbrush, using both hands, she made sure she finished the last painting," Morrison said.

Jay Gibble said his wife remained able to speak, though with badly slurred words, until two weeks before she died. She could communicate by writing for another week after that.

Jay said the family held a private service at Highland Avenue Church for the grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Responding in kind to her gift of personalized poems to them, many of the children wrote a farewell message and placed it in the casket. Her body later was cremated.


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Teacher was 'like virtuous woman in Proverbs'
Thursday, September 27, 2007By WENDY REEVESTimes Staff Writer wendy.reeves@htimes.com

Joyce Benefield 'amazing, loving, caring person'

Joyce Benefield did whatever she could to make the world a better place for others.

She died Sept. 19 at age 75 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease.


Benefield was devoted to her family and friends. She loved her church and following Christ. She was a mentor, molder of young minds and an avid Auburn football fan.

"She was inexhaustible," said longtime friend Mary Taylor. "She was 10 years my senior, and she could run circles around me."

Benefield obtained a bachelor's degree in home economics from Auburn, a bachelor's in education from Athens State and a master's degree in administration from Alabama A&M.

She worked several years on Redstone Arsenal as a staffing clerk before she began her teaching career.

Benefield taught 26 years at Davis Hills Elementary. After it became the Academy for Science and Foreign Language, Benefield spent a half-year at Weatherly Elementary before she retired.

Then she returned to the arsenal in the personnel department for several years before retiring again.

"I guess she just couldn't stand the quietness at home, so then she went to work at Wal-Mart," said daughter Kay Patton. "She didn't have to, but she did it just to be around people, to interact and talk to adults."

Patton described her mother as "an amazing, loving and caring person."

A few years ago, Benefield bought a condo in Sevierville, Tenn. She took her family and friends there. And she loved to go there by herself because she found it so peaceful, Patton said.

Taylor remembers Benefield taking her "under her wing" when she started teaching at Davis Hills. Taylor was struggling after a divorce and was living with her children in a roach-infested rental.

Benefield's son was buying a new house and wanted to rent his, and Benefield immediately thought of Taylor.

"She was good about hooking people up with what they needed," Taylor said. "And I was by far not her only friend. She had many."

When Taylor was struggling, Benefield gave her vegetables from the garden and clothes that her daughter no longer needed.

"She was truly like the virtuous woman in Proverbs," Taylor said. "And she was also a very modest and humble lady."

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Bridget Sills bore a long illness without complaint
September 26 2007

The funeral takes place this week in London of Duncormick woman Bridget Sills (née Kendrick) who died last week at the age of 65, after a sustained period of illness bravely born without complaint.

Bridget, also sometimes known as Breda, was a native of Horesland in Duncormick, one of a family of ten. She worked in Dublin and Wexford before emigrating to the U.K. in 1969. She was followed promptly by Murrintown man Michael Sills who had been smitten by her when she served him his daily lunch as a waitress at Sinnott's restaurant in Selskar.

The couple were married in July 1970 at St. Mary Magdalen's church in Willesden, the parish where they spent their married life and where they raised their two children, son Damian and daughter Joanna.

The deceased was a reserved woman, who shied away from the much of the limelight enjoyed by her husband as the current chairman of the London Wexford Association. However, she certainly maintained strong contact with home, especially while her parents were still alive.

Bridget was strongly independent in her views, loved to discuss the issues of the day and was a keen gardener. She enjoyed singing and The Streams of Bunclody' was her party piece. While she had strong family links to the Father Murphy's G.A.A. club, her favourite sport was soccer, attending Chelsea matches with son Damian. She also loved motorsport. In recent years, she worked part-time at the school attached to St. Mary Magdalen's until laid low by motor neuron disease. During her illness, she was cared for at home and she passed away in the arms of her loving husband. She was able to rely on the support of many good friends and neighbours as well as members of the London Wexford Association. Five of her eight surviving siblings are also resident in the U.K.

Bridget Sills is mourned by her grieving husband, son, daughter, grand-daughter Lauren; brothers Joe and Tony in Ireland, Phil and Jack; sisters Eileen, Annie and Kay; as well as members of the extended family and many friends.
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