Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, I can only hope and pray that for you, time may ease, while it will never erase, the pain of her going. Seth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Klein" <pklein@threshinc.com> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 4:41 PM Subject: [Leica] My mother is gone... > LUGgers: My mother, Emilie Klein, is gone. She passed away at dawn on > Thursday morning. Her younger sister and I were with her throughout the > final night. > > Emilie's years (1921-2009) spanned the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, > WWII, the 50s, the Age of Aquarius, the Space Age and the digital > revolution. She was a courageous woman whose mobility was impaired by > polio when she was just a year old. Through most of her life, she could > walk, but one leg was shorter than the other and she wore lifts on one > shoe. The last couple of years, she was mostly in a motorized wheelchair. > > Though she never got a college degree, she took courses at the New School > in New York, was an avid reader, and became a self-taught librarian. She > created the library at Temple Isaiah in Lexington, Mass. and ran it for > about 30 years. She was a "people person" who became friend, confidant > and > surrogate mother to many. > > My mother's influence formed the humanities half of my makeup, as my > father's formed the scientific/technical. It was her example that sparked > my interest in photography. On all our trips and family outings, she > would > carry her Bolsey B2 rangefinder and Gossen Pilot light meter. She shot > only Kodachrome. I have a heritage of hundreds of slides, dating from > about > 1950. And she was a Leica user--after I got my M2 about 1970, she bought a > IIIf and brightline viewfinder, which she used until she couldn't see well > enough to focus. She didn't know much about photographic technique, but > she did fine. > > Here are the three pictures that will stand with her memorial candle at > our > house this week: > > From 1951-52, with my Dad (Kodachrome, slightly overexposed): > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/Misc1950s/19EmMilt52.jpg.html > > October 2007, my favorite recent picture of her (B&W, of course): > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/SuzyOct07/L1002138EmBW-w.jpg.html > > May 2008, at the Tulip Festival near Mt. Vernon, WA: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/tulips08/L1003317-prf.jpg.html > > --Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1886 - Release Date: 1/10/2009 6:01 PM