Count me in as well.

Ric

> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:22:45 -0400
> From: hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Boston Bob's family - please help
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just saw the emails about Bob having passed away - I've been in transit
> and didn't get them yesterday.  Bob was a good friend, a warm and
> caring person, who provided the heart keeping Matilda going, but more
> importantly was always willing to help me and to invite me into his home and
> his friendship.  I spent time with him whenever I was in Boston.  And now
> I have just arrived back in Boston from Mali to find this very sad news.
> 
> But that's not why I'm sending this email.  As some of you know. Bob's
> teen-aged daughter Julie is severely retarded.  Bob and his wife were under
> extreme pressure all the time because of the challenges of taking care of
> her, both emotional and financial.  Bob had an insurance policy with which
> he hoped Julie would be supported after his death, but I cannot imagine he
> though it would come so soon.  Nor, from what he told me, do I think it will
> be enough.  His wife - I think her name is Karen - was working nights to
> help support them, so that one of them could always be around to mind Julie
> when she wasn't in school, as she cannot be left alone.  They had little
> cash to spare even with two incomes.
> 
> I would love to see the vanagon community make a significant donation
> through the pay it forward fund to help Bob's family at this time.  Larry,
> if you think that is appropriate, I will be happy to put in at least a few
> hundred dollars.  I hope anyone else who has benefited from Bob's engines,
> his advice, or considered themselves a friend of his, will also be able to
> contribute to whatever extent is feasible for you, to help his wife and
> their other two children (both in college, I think) deal with the challenges
> now facing them.
> 
> Bob was a really good man, I'm very sorry to get this news.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Joy Hecht

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