More Nebeker memories

Harry, in an email to Sarah Nebeker,  "I wore a Jerry Garcia tie all day yesterday. I might have also shaved my head in homage but did not want to spend the whole day explaining."

"My hope is that you will not go one day without recognizing some special new blessing that will have come from all this grief you have endured recently.  That the pain will become pure joy."

"Our hearts are still crying with you and hope you're feeling somewhat comforted.  We all loved him."

The service is this Saturday - we are flying up for it.  I will try to take good notes.

Friendship and Sorrow

This photo is from the first year Harry ran Hood to Coast.  It was the year Agnes was born - which would be 2007.  It was so fun for Hannah and I to stay in Nebeker's basement - in the wonderful Norwegian bed - and then bike over to Seaside to see Harry finish.

 

Ry and Sarah have been part of our lives for so many years - it will be hard to realize Ry is really gone now.  We have lost other good friends - and time heals the sorrow - and we are so grateful for good memories - but it is sad.

 

Very soon after I got to know Harry, I got to know Ry - and he was at BYU for a time after Harry left on his mission.  My sister Alice and I drove to Covina to attend  his missionary farewell in summer of 1965.  I picked him up at the SLC airport when he came back to Provo after returning from Norway.

I wish I had photos of some the great adventures we had in those BYU years - I will just have to describe them I supopse.

I love the above photo of Ry with a baby Agnes - he had her charmed that day - in typical Nebeker fashion.

Ry was a one-of-a-kind - and I am so grateful we could call him friend.

Friendship!!

The Nebekers are good friends - and old friends - and we treasure our association with them.

 

Harry, Ry, and Jim Heder were college roommates - the other two men are Ry's brothers.  A wonderful comradeship.

From the first time I met Ry - at his missionary farewell that Harry asked me to attend while he was on his mission - until now, it has only been a pleasure to associate with him and his family.

Today is Ry's birthday.  Ry is quite ill, and our prayers continue daily for him and for his family.  But we want to remember the good times and the many wonderful memories we share.

Happy day to you Ry!!

Happy Birthday Joy!!

Joy is the one in the middle in dark glasses.  You almost have to have lived with her - as I did for two years - to understand how ubiquitous those glasses are.  Joy wore contact lenses but was always too tired to keep them in long.  And she didn't have regular glasses - so she was always wearing her prescription sunglasses!!

(During high school, she was forever losing a contact - once in a swimming pool - and we actually found it!!)

Maybe you have to take my word for it, but this photo just captures a moment in time that was a great, happy time - one I treasure.

And I treasure the friendship we share - and want to wish her a very happy day!!

Here's to birthdays, and friendship, and late-night clowning in the dorms!!