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Subject: [Leica] Ada is gone
From: j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:45:01 +0200
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Please accept my condolences, Peter, and thanks for sharing such an amazing 
story.Jean-Michel
 > Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:24:55 -0700
> From: pklein at threshinc.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org; olympus at thomasclausen.net; leicareflex at 
> freelists.org
> Subject: [Leica] Ada is gone
> 
> My mother-in-law Ada passed away peacefully late Thursday night after a 
> two-week stay in hospice. She was 90 years old. But somehow we never 
> thought of her as an old lady, just someone with more experience.  You 
> probably remember her from my many photos of her over the years.
> 
> Here she is translating at the United Nations in Geneva, 1946.
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/6468873879/in/photostream/>
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/6468086051/in/photostream/>
> 
> And here she is a few years ago, bemusedly listening to one of my 
> mother's stories:
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/7475150528/in/photostream>
> 
> We miss her already.  Please think of Ada, Katya and me over the next 
> few days.
> 
> --Peter
> 
> 
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