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Subject: [Leica] My mother is gone...
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Sun Jan 11 18:29:44 2009

 
Peter,


I am so sorry to hear of your loss. ? Our condolences to you and your family.


Sincerely,
Gene & Chris Duprey? -------------- Original message from Peter Klein 
<pklein@threshinc.com>: --------------


> 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
> 
> 
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