<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">Paul and I knew you probably a little less well than Zayne knew your kids, but two things stand out. When we first "upped" with GOSA, Paul was the secretary, and he wrote us the most wonderful, warm, and welcoming letter you could imagine, sprinkled with geyser tidbits from you guys' vast knowledge of the geyser fields (so you knew it wasn't a fill-in-the-blank sort of welcome letter. It would take an odd program indeed to come up with "If you've walked on the floor of Geyser Springs, you are a braver soul than I."<br> <br> The other is for any sort of "Paul in action" memories you're collecting. When your boy was about 3 (this is a guess) and the Norris mudholes had become a real Norris Pool, Paul noticed your son climbing on the barrier that had been cobbled together around it. I don't think I've ever seen someone who trained at track and field move that fast to retrieve anything that might have been foolhardily walking in harm's way. The other must have been a year or two earlier because a bottle was involved. The entire membership of GOSA was parked at F&M and somehow the baby bottle involved got loose and took a running leap into the river. I remember seeing Paul disappear and then reappear on the downhill slope below Link, racing the flow of the river so he could get ahead of the bottle and retrieve it. <br> <br> Still completely non-plussed about this.<br> Prayers and blessings,<br> Karen Webb<br> </font> <div class="moz-signature"><br> <img src="cid:part1.02000007.01070307@xmission.com" border="0"></div> <br> On 5/19/2013 5:44 PM, Suzanne Strasser wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:C7FF795B86164535A0A1FEB970DC8EE7@Morning" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 10.00.9200.16578"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#000080" face="Calibri" size="2"><span class="118353623-19052013"><span style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(55,64,78); TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT: 12px/17px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">For all of you that knew him, I would greatly appreciate it if you could post or send to me a favorite memory of Paul.  If you have any photos I would love to see them as well.  I am going to collect all the remembrances for a memory book.</span></span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#000080" face="Calibri" size="2"><span class="118353623-19052013"><span style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(55,64,78); TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT: 12px/17px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"></span></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#000080" face="Calibri" size="2"><span class="118353623-19052013"><span style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(55,64,78); TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT: 12px/17px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Since Friday the outpouring of love and support has been amazing, and I thank you all.</span></span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#000080" face="Calibri" size="2"><span class="118353623-19052013"><span style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(55,64,78); TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT: 12px/17px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"></span></span></font><font color="#000080" face="Calibri" size="2"><span class="118353623-19052013"><span style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(55,64,78); TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT: 12px/17px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"></span></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#000080" face="Calibri" size="2"><span class="118353623-19052013"><span style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(55,64,78); TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT: 12px/17px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Suzanne</span></span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#000080" face="Calibri" size="2"><span class="118353623-19052013"><span style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(55,64,78); TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT: 12px/17px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"></span></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#000080"><span class="118353623-19052013"><span style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; WORD-SPACING: 0px; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(55,64,78); TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT: 12px/17px 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><font face="Calibri" size="2">(</font><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sjstrasser@comcast.net"><font face="Calibri" size="2">sjstrasser@comcast.net</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="2">)</font></span></span></font></div> <br> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us"> <hr tabindex="-1"> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu">geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu">mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Suzanne Strasser<br> <b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:18 PM<br> <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a><br> <b>Subject:</b> [Geysers] Paul Strasser<br> </font><br> </div> <div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013">Dear friends,</span></font></div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013">I am so sorry to have to tell you that Paul passed away yesterday, after a 3-year long battle with ALS.  It is much consolation to the family that he passed peacefully and was spared dealing with the end stages of the disease.  On the other hand, it was still a shock to us.  He had been fairly stable until Monday, and then suddenly went downhill fast.</span></font></div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013">He and I appreciated <span class="448523522-18052013">the friendships we formed with you in the geyser basins, and I will always treasure the memories</span>.</span></font></div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013"><span class="448523522-18052013">We have a vacation in Yellowstone planned for July 20-28, and I am hoping we can have a memorial get together in remembrance of Paul for friends that are there.  Something upbeat to remember all the good times we had.  And I do also hope to be there for Labor Day weekend to raise a glass for Paul at the wine and cheese party.</span></span></font></div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013"><span class="448523522-18052013"></span></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013"><span class="448523522-18052013">I hope he is looking down on us all to witness many eruptions of Morning, Giant, Fan and Mortar, Splendid, Steamboat, Grand... and many, many more.</span></span></font></div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013">With much love,</span></font></div> <div><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span class="351005718-18052013">Suzanne</span></font></div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ Geysers mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers">https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>