Friday, December 5, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Update
Dawn
Monday, October 27, 2008
We are home . . . for now
Thank you to everyone who has been praying and comforting and supporting us during this time. We calculated that we have driven at least 2000 miles in the past week and quite a bit of it late at night.
Dawn and family.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Joan Mary (Hying) Niedermeyer, age 60, went to be with the Lord unexpectedly on
Joan was born
Joan was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and friend with many passions. First and foremost was her personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Second was her dedication to her husband of almost 40 years. She treasured the time spent with her daughters and grandchildren.
She touched many people throughout her life by giving to others. She was an avid volunteer with many local community groups and churches. She always made time to “visit” and stay in touch with family and friends all over the world. Her concern for others still continues today. Her final wish was to donate her body for medical research and this wish will be fulfilled at
In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by two nieces (Kelby and Jessie Schmelzer) and one nephew (Tyler Laufenberg).
Joan is survived by her husband (James), three daughters: Wendy (Michael) Lemme, Dawn (Scott) Zook, Tiffany (
Thursday, October 23, 2008
My Mom died Monday
She nearly died several times that night. We packed everyone up and headed down there, a 9 hour drive. We arrived around 8 in the morning on Monday and she was stable but sedated and on a ventilator and receiving nearly lethal doses of blood pressure medicine to achieve almost 100 on her blood pressure. My 2 sisters and 4 of my Mom's 7 siblings arrived also. After an echocardiogram it was determined that she had fluid built up around her heard and an Esophageal Echocardiogram it was determined that she had a Aortic dissection. My Mom died in surgery between 5 and 5:30 PM Monday evening.
Our move to India has been postponed to November 13th. We have 1 memorial service in Wisconsin Saturday 10/25 and another one in Phoenix on 11/6.
I'm home for just a but before we are headed to Wisconsin.
I've been writing more - but I'll post it as I have time.
Dawn
Friday, October 3, 2008
Houston - we have a roll-over
Dawn
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
You won't see this in convention news
DENVER, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- An official Guinness Book of World Records attempt to display the largest ever protest sign has succeeded. The 530-foot tall and 666-foot wide message is being shouted from the mountaintops overlooking the Democratic National Convention with the leading 2008 protest message.
Depending on their location, thousands of DNC delegates and journalists can look out their hotel windows to the west to see the sign. Sponsored by American RTL Action, the message initially appeared with three enormous 160-foot tall, bright yellow letters, D-N-C, stacked on top of each other.
After those letters suddenly appeared on a mountain just west of Denver, the actual full message of the sign began to unfurl. Three lines of white text, built on the vertical yellow letters read, D-N-C:
Destroys
uNborn
Children
"The tiniest boys and girls should be loved and protected," said American RTL Action president Steve Curtis, "but as nominating Barack Obama emphasizes, the DNC even supports killing kids in the womb old enough to know their mother's voice, sleep and dream, suck their thumbs, and play with their toes."
Columbine dad Brian Rohrbough, whose son Daniel was murdered at that high school massacre, is the group's vice president. "When we tell kids that unborn children can be killed if their parents don't want them," said Rohrbough, "we rob them of the knowledge of the God-given right to life and we destroy their moral foundation. Abortion is wrong because it's a baby; it's always wrong to intentionally kill an innocent baby."
Guinness assigned American Right To Life an official world record attempt number: 228132. The protest sign weighs more than 2,700 pounds and was sewed together with more than four miles of seams connecting 2,400 sheets and backpacked onto location and unfurled by 44 letter carriers with spotters a mile away to ensure proper letter placement. ARTL commits to removing the DNC Sheets Of Shame and leaving the area cleaner than it had been.
ARTL is also a lead sponsor of the DNC Power in the Park protest event by national black leaders at Denver's Martin Luther King Jr. Park and of the Clinton Watch project at Denver area strip joints.
Video is here American right to life
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Our new family blog
Dawn