You might remember my mentioning a friend named Rebecca from time to time. She and I were young Miami University librarians in the 1970s and became good friends. She was devastated when her husband died in 2020 and eventually stopped even responding to my texts almost 3 years ago.
I learned quite by accident last Friday that she’d had a stroke in April, shuttled from facility to facility for 6 months, and died on October 8. While I’m not sure she’d appreciate the exposure, I was grateful to find that her church had live-streamed her Oct. 16 funeral and I could watch the replay.
This one’s tough…