My Aunt Marge passed away last night in Omaha. She wasn't nearly as idyllic or famous as Florence Henderson. She spent about thirty years as a Dominican nun. She hated that life and she didn't like children, especially young children. But guess what assignment she received? Kindergarten teacher. I don't really know much about her or what she did when she left her order but she's always had health problems and it kind of surprises me at how long she lived. She was 85. Alzheimer's is the thing that finally got her. I hate that disease with every fiber in my being. My brother Marty said she donated her body to the Nebraska Anatomical Society and we'll have a memorial service there in the spring time.
It kind of brings the other recent, more notable deaths home a little.