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Post by Chuckie on Mar 23, 2017 22:16:39 GMT -5
Monkey (Beth's) Mom is 93 years young, and went to Pensacola on spring break w/her grandkids and a coupla Monkey's bros. & families. While on the beach Monday morning, she had a brain aneurysm, and they had to life flight her to the hospital. They did a surgery to "coil" said aneurysm, and she is stable and "doing as well as they can expect". Said the rest is up to her. She was on ZERO meds before this--cept for an inhaler for her osteo--and walked three miles every day on the county roads out near her 30+ acre farm. She still drives, mows her own grass, goes to Tai Chai & yoga classes weekly, etc. She had the first Chambers I ever met--a Model D--and was the inspiration for us to get one, and hence our involvement out here. She still cooks on a "B" we restored for her. We are driving down Saturday or Sunday; I will fly back in a week or two, Monkey will stay until they release her. Doubt I'll be out here much... At any rate, if you have it in you, could you offer an Ave or whatever your faith offers that she recoup. If anyone COULD, it'd be HER! I always told her they were gonna have to SHOOT her on RESURRECTION DAY to get rid of her. Here she is on the beach Sunday morn after Mass, taken by my S.I.L. on her cell. IF the sun had been over the yardarm, she'd of had a gin & tonic instead of a WATER in that chair. I believe Dwayner & mach12 and his wife met her--she travels so much, hard to remember if she was HOME when they were here!!!... THANKS! Chuckie
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Post by mach12 on Mar 23, 2017 22:47:28 GMT -5
Keep us posted Chuckie. Our prayers are definitely with you all. We really enjoyed meeting her and she's certainly got spunk so good news won't be a surprise.
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Post by pooka on Mar 24, 2017 4:01:25 GMT -5
Our good thought are with you, monkey & her mom. We hope for good news, but are braced for the worst. I'm a fatalist, but always hope for the best. Keep positive my friend.
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Post by evangeline on Mar 24, 2017 7:47:14 GMT -5
Wow, Chuckie, she sounds like an inspiration. Sending good thoughts her way.
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Post by vaporvac on Mar 24, 2017 19:28:59 GMT -5
I hoping and praying. I've known a couple of people who've had this procedure and have come out the other side, so I'm a positivist. She DOES sound like an inspiration.... accounts for Monkey's healthy lifestyle.
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Post by nana on Mar 25, 2017 8:29:17 GMT -5
Our thoughts and prayers are with you and her as well. I'm no particular religion, but I do believe in the power of prayer and positive thinking. She sounds like one of those tough old birds like my dad, and she wouldn't have made it this far unless she has reserves of strength and will to call on when needed. May her good health return soon!
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Post by karitx on Mar 26, 2017 12:41:16 GMT -5
She sounds like an incredible woman, Chuckie. My thoughts are with you all. I hope she's back to drinking her G&Ts ASAP!
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Post by Chuckie on Mar 27, 2017 0:01:50 GMT -5
She sounds like an incredible woman, Chuckie. My thoughts are with you all. I hope she's back to drinking her G&Ts ASAP! Well thanks for all the thoughts, prayers, and well wishes, but she's gone. Monkey got the call Friday she better get there, so she flew down. The Doctor said she wouldn't be able to breathe w/o the respirator, and they all agreed she would NOT want that--every time they lowered the sedative she was on, she tried to pull all the tubes out. She was saying " LET ME GO!!!" IMHO. She was @ Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, and the Priest had given her last rites before they turned the machine off this afternoon.... She was a fiery woman---a true maverick!!! She and a coupla college girlfriends were all single, and after the "big War"--WWII--they toured Ireland and the continent in the very early 50's alone! She wasn't afraid of the divil himself!!! The world is a little darker place with her passing, God rest her... I was out to her house w/my sister in law tidying up earlier. Marg was to host the Lenten Monday night rosary out there tomorrow until all this, so I decided to take it upon myself to have it there, "winging it" w/o Monkey. They were leaving, and asked "aren't you going?" I just had a premonition we were gonna get "the call", so said no I'll have another beer first. Jodi left and hadn't gone 1/4 mile, and the call came. She turned back, and the two of us along w/her 22 y.o. daughter had a "parting glass" of Midleton's in their Waterford crystal. I wasn't even THINKING of this site, when I took the pic & forwarded it out to family, until I just looked at it and says to meself, "the Chambers gang will appreciate this pic!" The lighting was best there is why I took it on the stove top, and Marg WAS the one that "turned us on" to Chambers Stoves!! GODS SPEED, Mother Marg!!! I'll think of you every single time I CWTGTO!!! Chuckie So fill to me the parting glass, Good night and joy be with you all
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Post by evangeline on Mar 27, 2017 8:24:51 GMT -5
Chuckie, a fitting tribute. Some families are just blessed.
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Post by mach12 on Mar 27, 2017 11:10:00 GMT -5
Chuckie, We're so sorry to hear that she's gone. We were really blessed to have gotten to meet her and I was surprised at how much she was like my 95 year old mother-in-law, who grew up in Eastern Nebraska. My mother-in-law says she's ready to move on from this life and has forbidden - in writing - any life support. They know what they want and you don't argue. I certainly hope my family will make the same decision for me if I'm in a similar situation. We'll continue to keep you all in our thoughts and prayers.
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Post by pooka on Mar 27, 2017 14:03:06 GMT -5
It's rough to see a fiery old bird like her fall so quickly & irrevocably, but it's far more cruel to see a much love one slip away by inches as my mom did. Marg was a rare breed to be so vital & clear headed right up to the end. We should all be so lucky to mirror her in our own lives. It was agony to watch my mom slide slowly over years to her demise. Your Marg was like a great warrior that should only fittingly fall in a great battle quickly & gloriously. I only hope when my time comes, that I'm that lucky. It's fitting to give her an honored tribute & send off. She lived a rich & varied life right up to the end. She set an example for us all to live life as fully & broadly as we can, for you never know when the grim reaper will be tapping on your shoulder for that blink to oblivion.
I saw a special the other night about Dorothea Lange. She's a famous photographer who made her mark recording "the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography" according to Wikipedia. She was diagnosed with cancer as she was preparing a great exhibit of her life's work. She work though to complete it despite the difficulty. They said her last words were, "It's funny how it comes at the right time." Then she was gone. The last words of Vincent van Gogh were, "The Sadness Will Last Forever." For those of us who came after his tragic end, that's how we may feel that such a great tortured talent should die so.
As tragic as death is to those who are left behind, we should not fear it, but welcome it as the inevitable end of our walk through time. Marcus Aurelius said,
“He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.”
Only Marg, & those that went before her know the truth of this.
It brings a tear to my eye as I write this though I never met or knew her, but as it pains you, it pains me, perhaps because it's a reminder that the end is nigh for us all at some yet unknown appointment. We hope to be grieved when we pass as we grieve her. For as long as we are remembered, we will live on in those who come after forever. As we weep for her, we weep for ourselves & only hope we are all fondly remembered as she will be.
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Post by nana on Mar 27, 2017 14:36:19 GMT -5
My heartfelt sympathy goes out to you and your family. Rest easy knowing you allowed her to move on to whatever is next instead of holding a spirit like hers in a body that was no longer able to serve. I was hoping she would pull through for your sakes, but if it was not to be, then it was not to be. A little bit of her lives on in all of you and in your memories of her. My mom often said she wanted to live a full great life and then when the time comes, let it be "lights out" and done. She got her wish, sooner than we all wanted, but 83 isn't so bad either. We should all be so lucky.
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Post by karitx on Mar 27, 2017 17:32:17 GMT -5
Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss, Chuckie. I know she will be dearly missed.
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Post by chipperhiker on Mar 31, 2017 22:39:16 GMT -5
So sorry to hear this, Chuckie. Wishing you comfort.
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Post by Chuckie on Mar 31, 2017 23:38:42 GMT -5
So sorry to hear this, Chuckie. Wishing you comfort. Thanks to ALL for your kind expressions of sympathy and concern---you all are TOO MUCH!!! Here's a link to her obit if you care to read it. She just had this pic taken @ Church and HATED it--she said her toothy smile makes here look "all gnarly!!" LOL BUT in the REST of her pics she NEVER (or seldom) SMILED, so they went w/this one! www.leavenworthtimes.com/obituaries/20170328/margaret-marg-zeugin-liebenoWhen I was looking through old emails for pictures to use @ the wake, I found this one that she sent out to all after we gave her the "new" Model B to replace her old "D" on Christmas in 2009: " Now for the special gift of my "new" stove. As Pops always told me I was not a gracious recipient of some gifts (so I DID return the engagement ring 55 years ago but only to get a different kind of gold) and I am not too good at surprises, I am TOTALLY grateful for it and it looks beautiful when I admire it while sitting at the bar. The extra bonus is the shining jars, etc. on the shelf above, as I couldn't put anything not clean above it! I've been reading the Chambers cook book, getting refreshed on how to use the oven that I have missed these many years, with that "old piece of junk" (don't really mean that as that stove was a faithful servant for 37 years). Chuckie, you were a gem, not to listen to naysayers, me in particular, and I do so appreciate all the time, miles, imagination, improvisation-everything you did to bring it about. Of course, you did free Beth up to come out with Dub and Maddie, which is certainly a mixed blessing, for all the miles we've put in on the road! We probably needed the exercise." (Monkey--Beth--used to come out & walk our dogs Dub & Maddie--both gone too, alas!--with her whilst I worked on it "under cover" so we could surprise her. She had my "real name" where the "Chuckie" is above, hence it not blue/italic/bold. The "faithful servant for 37 years" was her Model D that was in the house when they bought it in 1972, and the oven 'quit' working, due to the dual safety on the "D" oven that I wasn't smart enough to fix, so I "cannibalized" two "B"s--one I drove to the Ozarks to get hence her mileage quote--to make her "Franken"B"). Thanks again, God bless all!! One of the last--if not THEE "Matriarch" of Chambers stoves or at least OLDEST daily user/owner has passed, God-rest-her!! She'd want us ALL to "keep on CWTGTO!" and get as much enjoyment from our stoves as she did hers!! CHEERS! Chuckie & Monkey
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Post by nana on Apr 1, 2017 6:47:58 GMT -5
What a beautiful tribute! I really get a sense of what a wonderful person she was.
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Post by evangeline on Apr 1, 2017 7:37:40 GMT -5
Chuckie, something tells me that Monkey chose you because you reminded her of her mom. . . ;-)
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Post by ronruble on Apr 1, 2017 16:03:10 GMT -5
Chuckie and Beth…. sorry for your loss
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Post by dwayner2 on Apr 13, 2017 0:06:00 GMT -5
Chuckie, I feel so terrible having only now discovered of your MIL's passing. I am so truly sorry for you and Monkey's loss, she really was quite a gal even if I only knew her so very briefly.
Yes, I was blessed to have met her that night when she got to the airport and we went out to dinner. Being feisty like she was, she would not let me pay for my dinner...her treat. I also remember the sweet voicemail she left us that night thanking us for tweaking the burners and such on her stove that day. After such a long flight, a late dinner and getting ready for bed, she still took the time to call you that night because YOU thinking of HER meant so much to her.
My prayers are with you both.
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Post by vaporvac on Apr 18, 2017 14:09:23 GMT -5
Chuckie, please know that I'm thinking of both you and Monkey. Her obituary was a unique tribute to the person she was and those she raised. Sitting on the beach with a Bailey's and cream surrounded by one's family seems just as if she planned it.
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Post by 58limited on May 7, 2017 9:36:43 GMT -5
Been off the forum for quite a while. Damn sorry to hear about this Chuckie. My mom had this happen in the early 1980s. She survived but it was a long recovery.
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