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12/22/2014 Reid and Laird White
Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Barbara was a marvelous person, so brilliant, so quick witted, so joyous in spirit. We'll miss her very much.
12/22/2014 Reid and Laird White
Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Barbara was a marvelous person, so brilliant, so quick witted, so joyous in spirit. We'll miss her very much.
12/23/2014 Andre Walker
North Reading, Masachusetts,
Dick and family, Barbara sounds like a wonderful and vibrant person whom I would have throughly enjoyed meeting. My thoughts are with you and your famlily as you come together to remember her full and rewarding life. Andre Walker, North Reading, MA
12/27/2014 Otto (Robin) Hall
Grinnell, IA, United States
Dearest Extended Priester Family - Fifty-some years ago, I piled into the white Dodge station wagon with the five Priester kids, going somewhere, Mrs. Priester at the wheel listening to show tunes on the radio. An otherwise typical summer afternoon. During a lull in kid-noise and music, Mrs. Priester announced that their Grandmother Rausch (her mother) had died. A brief silence was broken by Helen. "Did she die happy?" Mrs. Priester speculated that she didn't think people died happy.And we rode on. (This was not the day the the Dodge's axle broke transiting Kimberly Road on Grant Street.) As a retired hospice director, I have seen plenty of people die. Most were fortunately un- conscious. Those who were awake probably were not so happy. However, there were also the lucky ones, who lived a life filled with more ups than downs. Many of people die happy. My guess and hope is that your broken hip frustrated you but nevertheless, you were at least contented and probably happy to have made such a full life for yourself and were such a joy to us whose lives you moulded as if we were clay in your hands. What a gracious person, a wonderful mom, so many talents, curosity, energy, education, interests, personality, kindness - my second mother. She even had the gift of time to look back on such a well-lived life and watch her family grow. Pete, I did not follow your advice ("If you ever get a tatoo, get it on your butt where nobody will see it" - shirtless people see mine), Barb, my only complaint is you put too much butter on our sandwiches for my taste. And thanks for being the first to expose me to the arts and being our Den Mother. Goat my first and greatest best-friend, Bets, my buddy and confidant, Jimbo, the middle man who never allowed us to be unaware he was there, Wheels, my youngest sister and Dickins - sorry for the chocolate (Ex-Lax) we gave you. I have loved you all since December of 1954 when we moved in next to you. How lucky could I have been? Affectionately. Zobka