The last twelve months weren’t good for me.
My dear friend Guy B. Meeker died in December 2008. His body was not strong enough to withstand the merciless grip of an aggressive cancer. In May 2009, my mother Ana Catharina Barber passed away, she was 95 years old. Even though it was not a ’tragic’ death, considering her age, I miss her now that she is not around anymore. She was enviably lucid until she suffered the devastating effects from a stroke that completely paralized her two weeks before she was released from life. “Mami”, aka “AC” when she was 93 Photo taken in 2006 My mother wanted to be buried in Cochabamba where she spent wonderful years of her life. We, her surviving children, complied with her request, and interred her remains next to her mother, Marie-Louise Barber. If I were requested to say what my mother’s most remarkable personality traits were, three characteristics would come to my mind immediately: Discipline, modesty, and independence. Ana Catharina Barber (1913 – 2009) Photo taken in 1969 My youngest sister Erica, aged 63, followed my mother only three weeks later. She died of cancer in June 2009, in Munich, where she has lived most of her adult life. Erica Leander (1945 – 2009) Photo taken in 1973
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