A memorial service for Rebecca will be held at the Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist at 2:00pm on Saturday, January 31. After the service, there will be a reception in the Jones Building Activity Room.
CCCHUU is located at 106 Purefoy Road, Chapel Hill, NC.
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Archive for January, 2009
Memorial Service Details
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Gifts to Honor Rebecca
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rebecca believed strongly in many worthy causes. She would have been delighted to have donations made in her name to humanitarian relief agencies, environmental conservation advocacy groups, women’s rights groups, and civil rights groups. Perhaps the best way to help sustain her special contribution to improving many lives is to support the Child [...]
Rebecca Ruth Sheline Socolar
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2009 | 38 Comments »
Rebecca died at 11:00 last night. She peacefully stopped breathing while Yvonne was reading to her.
Rebecca had a massive GI bleed on Sunday night due to colon cancer with liver metastases, compounded by ITP (untreatable low platelet count in her blood). Her last two days were spent in the hospital. She was [...]
Update
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2009 | 16 Comments »
We’ve just come from our church, which held its service in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr, including a sermon by Tim Tyson (“Blood Done Sign My Name” — read it if you haven’t yet) with powerful music from Mary Williams. It was great to see that kind of spirit as we deal with [...]
No SIR
Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2009 | 11 Comments »
We had a rough day. Rebecca was all set to head to the SIR treatment room when the news came that her platelets were too low for the procedure to be done safely. We’ll be spending the next few days doing various tests to try to understand the source of the platelet problem [...]
Update
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Happy New Year to all our devoted readers.
We had a lovely trip to Florida between Christmas and New Year’s day. The weather was perfect in Venice (just south of Tampa) and we saw 5 sunsets from the beach. We also got to spend an afternoon with Rebecca’s dad. Rebecca has been struggling [...]
