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1109 Fairlawn Ct. \# 6\cr
Walnut Creek, Calif. 94595\cr}
{\noindent Dear Helen:}

Of course I remember you, and thanks very much for your note of sympathy.

As great a shock as it was and as much as I miss Bernice, I am beginning
to feel that maybe it was for the best as she did not suffer for a long
period of time and she was active and very much alive until the very end.
She had a coronary bypass operation in January, which was not very much
fun but we thought that she was on the way to complete recovery.  I had
always been the one with all the health problems and we always assumed
that I would be the first to go, but it was not to be so.

Bernices's brother, Goff also died of a heart attack as did her mother and
also her father although they both had other complications that hastened
the end.  Helen Rose is still alive but she has been senile for perhaps
ten years and has recently had a slight stroke and is bed ridden.  Her
husband died fairly early in their married life and Helen Rose taught school
untill she retired.

Goff and his wife Mildred Miller Crawford lived at Rossmoor for several
years before Goff died and Mildred is still there.  You may not have ever
known her as she was several years behind us at C of E and actually never
graduated.  Mildred's address is 1501 Ptarmigan Dr.  She is still
extremely active, a great golfer and into all sorts of other activities.
Her sister wrote the article about C of E that appeared in the Sterling
paper.

We have two daughters, both married and with a boy and a girl in each family.
Margaret is a History of Art professor with one published book to her credit.
Donna collaborated with her husband as a co-author of an extremely successful
computer text and is currently writing a second such book.

Bernice continued with her organ playing until we moved to California and
then turned to playing the piano and gave frequent small recitals for her
friends although she did substitute at the organ on occasion.  Her record as 
a church organist was unusual as she started playing the organ at age 15 and 
held organ jobs for 50 years.

I retired fron an industrial job in 1966 and joined the Computer Science
faculty at Stanford University with a one year's post-retirement
appointment.  This has been renewed year after year and I am still working
40 hours a week.  My current work has to do with a computer program that
produces well formatted text, of which this letter is a modest example.

By the way, please pardon my not writing in long hand but my penmanship
has never been good and it has gotten worse, through disuse during the
years as I do all of my writing on a computer terminal.