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Introduction
BOOKOFMEMORIES.COM, including mobile applications and related services (collectively the “Site”) is fully owned and operated by FrontRunner Professional, (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” “our”). Company takes your privacy seriously. We feel it is important that you fully understand the terms and conditions under which we use the information we gather from you through the use of our Site. Please read this Privacy Policy ("Policy") carefully to understand how we will use and protect your Personal Information. We will not share your Personal Information with anyone except as described in this Policy. Changes to this Policy will be announced on our Site, so please check back periodically. This Policy forms part of the Company’s TERMS AND CONDITIONS and is incorporated by reference to those Terms and Conditions.
This Policy outlines Company’s general policies and practices for protecting your private information on this Site. It covers why Company collects information, the types of information it gathers, how it uses such information, and the notice and choice affected individuals have regarding Company’s use of and their ability to correct their information. This Policy applies to all personal information received by Company whether in electronic, written, or verbal format.
Company reserves the right to modify this Policy at any time and will do so from time to time. Each modification shall be effective upon its posting to the Site. Your continued use of the Site following any such modification constitutes your acceptance of any change(s) to this Policy. It is therefore important that you review this Policy regularly. If you have any questions concerning this Policy please contact Company at support@frontrunner360.com.
1. Scope
This Policy covers the Site in part and as a whole. However, it does not apply to entities that Company does not own or control, including without limitation, Campaign, advertisers or developers of content. Company may include third-party links on the Site. These third-party sites are governed by their own privacy policies and NOT this Policy. Company therefore has no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these third-party sites. Please check the privacy policy of any third-party site you interact with on or off the Site.
2. General Policy Provisions
Definitions
“Personal Information” includes both “Personally Identifiable Information” and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information”.
"Personally Identifiable Information" refers to information that lets us know the specifics of who you are and can be used to identify, contact or locate you. Personally Identifiable Information is requested when you register with us, make a Donation, correspond with us, or otherwise volunteer information, for instance, through the use of "Contact Us". Personally Identifiable Information may include, without limitation, your name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card number, and other identification and contact information.
"Non-Personally Identifiable Information" refers to information that does not identify a specific individual by itself or in combination with other information. We gather certain information about you based upon what you view on our Site in several ways. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis. This information may include the Site’s Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. A URL is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web (‘Web”). An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP") network, such as the World Wide Web. Networks use the TCP/IP protocol to route information based on the IP address of the destination. In other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop
“Sensitive Personal Information” means Personal Information that reveals race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership or that concerns an individual’s health.
Notice
Company shall inform you of the purposes for which it collects and uses Personal Information and the types of non-agent third parties to which Company discloses or may disclose that information. Company shall provide you with the choice and means for limiting the use and disclosure of your Personal Information. Notice will be provided in clear and conspicuous language when you are first asked to provide Personal Information to Company, or as soon as practicable thereafter. In any event, you will receive notice before Company uses or discloses the information for a purpose other than that for which it was originally collected.
Choice
Company will offer you the opportunity to choose (opt-out) whether Personal Information is to be disclosed to a third party or to be used for a purpose other than that for which it was originally collected or has subsequently been authorized. For Sensitive Personal Information (when applicable), Company will give you the opportunity to affirmatively or explicitly consent (opt-in) to the disclosure of the information for a purpose other than that for which it was originally collected or has subsequently been authorized. Company will treat Sensitive Personal Information it receives from anyone the same as it would treat its own Sensitive Personal Information.
Security
Company shall take reasonable steps to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. No company is immune from Internet attacks or data breaches. Company cannot guarantee the security of information on or transmitted via the Internet.
Data Integrity
Company shall only process Personal Information in a way that is compatible with and relevant to the purpose for which it was collected or has been authorized. To the extent necessary for those purposes, Company shall take reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Information is accurate, complete, current, and reliable for its intended use.
How to Access Your Information
Company offers you choices for the collection, use and sharing of Personal Information. You may notify Company of your preferences, or change any Personal Information, by emailing support@frontrunner360.com. Please be sure to provide complete account information so Company can identify you in its records.
You may also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from Company by responding directly to any email you receive with a request to remove you from the mailing list.
3.Reasons the Company Collects Personal Information
Company collects your Personal Information because it helps deliver a superior online experience, gives you convenient access to the Site for browsing, and allows key features of the Site to function properly. In order to better provide you with this superior level of customer service, our Site collects two types of information (referred to in this policy as "Personal Information") about our visitors: Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information. In addition, your Personal Information helps Company keep you informed about the latest announcements, special offers, and events that you might like to hear about.
4. Information Company Collects About You
Any time a guest or member (collectively “Users”) accesses the Site they receive a “cookie” from Company. Company uses cookies (small pieces of data stored for an extended period of time on a computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make the Site easier to use and to protect both you and Company. These cookies give Company certain Non-Personally Identifiable Information about your use of the Site. You may remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use the Site. Company may also use pixels, widgets and other tools to gather such Non-Personally Identifiable Information to improve the experience of the website or mobile application.
Company may contract with third-party service providers to assist it in better understanding its Site Users. These service providers are not permitted to use the Non-Personally Identifiable Information collected on Company’s behalf except to help it conduct and improve its business.
When you access the Site from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, Company may collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about the user base as a whole. Company will not use the information collected to market directly to that person.
Company keeps track of some of the actions you take on the Site such as member profiles and pages you view. Even if you do not provide certain information, Company may obtain it from you profile or the pages of its Site that you visit. Company may retain the details of connections or transactions you make on the Site.
5. Information You Provide to Company
To become a User, Company shall collect certain Personally Identifiable Information, which you are required to provide. Information that is not required shall be deemed voluntary and you may provide such information, although not mandatory.
While using the Site, you may provide text, files, images, photos, videos, location data, or any other materials (collectively “Content”) to Company by uploading, posting, or publishing the Content on the Site. Frequently, Content you place on the Site will contain a picture of your face. Company may retain the details of connections or transactions you make on the Site.
Where applicable, when you interact with other Users on the Site, you may provide other information about yourself, such as political or topical views, religious affiliation, or marital status. Any information in a public forum is accessible by anyone, including people who are not members of the Site. Please be aware they may share information you give them with other Users you may not know. They may also share the information outside the Site without your prior approval. Company does not have control over the actions of its Users and accepts no responsibility or liability for their actions. Please keep this fact in mind when using the Site, and use care when disclosing Personal Information to other Users of the Site.
Company may also collect information from ads you click on when using the Site. Company may also keep track of links you click on in e-mails you receive from Company. This is done to increase the relevancy of the ads you see.
6. How Company Uses Your Personal Information
Company uses the information you are required to provide to become a User in order to insure you are over the age of thirteen (13). THE SITE IS NOT MEANT TO BE USED BY ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN (13). If you are under thirteen, please do not attempt to register with the Site or send Company any Personal Information. Company may also use your age information to be sure you receive an age appropriate experience while using the Site.
Company will use the information it collects to provide, without limitation, services and features to you and facilitate payment for any Donations between Campaign Organizers and Donors and provide information to Campaign Organizers and Campaign beneficiaries. Company will also use the information to measure and improve the Site, and to provide you with customer support.
Company may contact you with new or updated products or services, designs, routes, surveys, or other related announcements from time to time. You may opt-out of all communications except essential updates. Company may include Content in the e-mails sent to you.
Certain software applications and applets transmit data to Company. Company may not make a formal disclosure if it believes its collection of and use of the information is the obvious purpose of the Site or its related application. If it is not obvious that Company is collecting or using such information, it will disclose its collection to you the first time you provide the information.
Company may use the information collected to prevent potential illegal activities. Company may also use a variety of methods to detect and address anomalous activity and screen content to prevent abuse.
Company may use your information to serve you personalized advertising. Company does not share your information with advertisers without your consent. Company allows advertisers to choose the characteristics of Users who will see their advertisements. Company may use any of the Non-Personally Identifiable Information it has collected in any fashion to select the appropriate audience. Company will not tell the advertiser who you are as part of this process. When you interact with an advertisement there is a possibility that you may receive a cookie from the advertiser.
7. How Company Shares Your Information
Company shares your Personal Information with third parties when it believes you have permitted such sharing, that it is reasonably necessary to offer services, or when legally required to do so. Company will not share your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties in a way that it thinks violates your privacy. The following non-exhaustive list contains examples of how Company shares or could share your information:
If Site allows you to invite a friend to join the Site or become a User, and you choose to do so, the invitation will contain information that will allow your friend to identify you. The invitation may contain information about other Users your friend might know.
Certain information you provide to Company may be shared by using the Site’s search function. This allows other Users to locate your profile and it allows new Users to find people they know on the Site.
Company provides some public information to search engines. This information allows search engines to locate the Site. It also allows people to locate you on the Site using a major search engine. This does not mean all information you post on the Site may be accessed using a search engine.
There are also times when Company may make certain Personal Information about you available to strategic partners or third parties. These companies may help Company process information, render services to you, manage and enhance customer data, provide customer service, assess your interest in products and services, or conduct research or satisfaction surveys. Without such information being made available, it would be difficult for you to use Company's Site and services.
Company may also share Personal Information when it has a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect itself and you from people violating the Terms and Conditions of the Site. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, and courts or other government entities.
Company may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if it has a good faith belief that the law requires such a response. This may include requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States if Company has a good faith belief that the response is required by law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, is applicable to users from that jurisdiction, and is consistent with generally accepted international standards.
Company may disclose analyzed data in the form of purchasing trends or statistical data. No Personally Identifiable Information will be attached to this disclosure.
8. Business or Asset Transfer or Sale
Company may be sold, sell or buy businesses or assets of businesses, or merge with another business. In such transactions, Personal Information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that Company, a line of business of Company, or substantially all the assets of Company are transferred, Personal Information may well be one of the transferred assets. Company will make a reasonable effort to provide notice on the Site, and to notify you via e-mail to the most recent e-mail address that you have provided of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
9. Miscellaneous
Privacy of Children
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THE SITE OR USE ITS SERVICES. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS ANY OF COMPANY’S SERVICES FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF COMPANY’S SITE AND SERVICES, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY COMPANY FALLS WITHIN THE CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT OF 1998 AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.
Protecting children’s privacy is especially important to Company. Company does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13, but because some information is collected electronically, it can appear to be the Personal Information of someone over the age of 13, and will be treated as such by this Policy. If a child under 13 submits Personal Information and Company learns that Personal Information pertains to a child under 13, it will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. It is Company’s policy to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore, Company restricts the Site and all other provided services to persons 18 years or older.
Agreement with Policy and Continued Use of Site
Unless stated otherwise, Company’s current Policy applies to all information that Company has about you, your account, and access to the Site. By using the Site, you consent to this Policy and having your Personal Information and data transferred and processed as described.
Obituary
Mary, known as Francie to her family was predeceased by her brother, Leroy Langdon Richardson of Lexington, KY. She is survived by her brother Boyd Richardson of Barbourville KY, also her sister-in-law Faye (Day) Richardson, her nieces Sherry (Richardson) Postlewaite (Jay) and Mary Ann Richardson, and her nephew Leroy Langdon (Buddy) Richardson (Stacey), and also two younger generations of great nephews and great nieces, all of Lexington KY.
Also left to mourn are old friends Barbara Buchanan of Burnaby BC, Doris M. (Skippy) Thompson of Baton Rouge, LA, Mary Jane Miller of St. Catharines ON, Chris MacNaughton & Marilyn O’Rourke of Grimsby ON, as well as many former students, colleagues, and countless friends.
A private funeral has taken place. A Celebration of Life awaits the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. In Memoriam donations to the Bruce Trail Conservancy would be gratefully appreciated.
Mary was born and raised in the little town of Barbourville, Knox County, in the Cumberland Mountains of South-Eastern Kentucky. Her mum, Mary Patricia (Jones) Richardson taught 3rd Grade, and her dad Leroy Langdon Richardson Sr. owned and operated a small business placing and servicing vending machines and juke boxes in South-Eastern Kentucky.
Education and Honours
Mary earned both her BSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Kentucky in Lexington She was named to Phi Beta Kappa. Her post-doc work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, was on the team of chemists analyzing the dust and rocks brought back from the Moon in 1969 by the crew of Apollo 11.
Somewhere along the way Mary was awarded the Commission of ‘Kentucky Colonel,’ the ‘highest title of honor’ bestowed by the Governor of Kentucky.
How Mary Came to Brock University
Tenure track academic appointments in science that would hire women were almost nonexistent in the United States of 1970-71. In fact, Mary was told that as a woman she would never be hired in any sort of senior Chemistry position. A further complication was that as a lesbian in the US at the time she could be fired without cause if she did not hide her nature successfully or dared to live openly and honestly.
When Mary saw the Brock University Chemistry Department’s ad in a professional journal she applied and was invited to interview. Brock was a young, small university, still inventing itself. Mary enjoyed meeting the professors and did not hesitate later to accept Brock’s offer. Her duties would include both teaching Chemistry and carrying on research in x-ray crystallography.
Professors who had been on the search committee used to tease Mary, claiming that she was hired because she gave her demonstration lecture at the blackboard without getting so much as a speck of chalk dust on her navy-blue suit. It was a fair representation of Mary’s meticulous approach to everything she ever did.
Mary’s Brock University Career
Chemistry Research
At the university level, faculty not only teach but are expected to contribute to the growing knowledge of their field of discipline by way of doing original research, publishing scholarly articles and making conference presentations about that research.
Mary’s Brock career began with the academic year 1971-72, and ended with her retirement thirty-five years later, a period in which tremendous changes happened every year in computing power and cost, research methods, and communication.
Mary was an x-ray crystallographer, a field of structural chemistry that studies the atomic and molecular structure of substances in order to understand the relationship between the structure of the molecules and the properties of the substance by examining how a single crystal of the subject substance scatters x-rays fired upon it from 360 degrees around it.
In the 1970s, determining a molecular structure was a huge job. Raw data points were gathered by hand over back to back days and were analyzed using Brock’s Burroughs main frame computer Only then could Mary draw the three-dimensional diagram showing the actual physical relationships between the substance’s constituent atoms. In India ink no less – a work of art. Only then the ‘real work’ began of determining how the molecular structure dictated, the character and behaviour of the substance being studied.
By the mid-1980s advances in scientific equipment and desktop computing power were such that Mary would set up a crystal of the subject material in a hideously expensive x-ray diffractometer, turned it on, and go home for the weekend. The structure diagram would be waiting for her on Monday morning. The ‘busy work’ was done automatically, and a crystallographer went straight from mounting the crystal to the real work of thinking, reaching conclusions about the substance, and writing up the research for publication.
If you want to learn more, Wikipedia has an excellent article about x-ray diffractometry.
Scientific Publishing
During all but the last couple of years before retiring, when Mary was engaged in developing a new Chemistry curriculum, she continued her research, and supervised the graduate students who learned by assisting her research. Her dozens of articles were accepted for publication in peer-reviewed scholarly Chemistry journals.
If you are curious about what such scientific papers look like you can simply Google ’Mary Frances Richardson, Brock University.’ Early in the results is a list of sixteen of her papers. The dates appearing are of when the papers were added to that index. One listed as 2011 was written in 1988 and published in the Canadian Journal of Chemistry the following year. Keep digging down through the Google entries tied to her name and eventually you will find all her publications.
You will note that it is customary to list as authors everyone in that project research group, students and faculty alike.
Teaching
Mary’s first love was teaching. As well as supervising her graduate students and teaching more senior undergraduate students, Mary always took a section of 1st year chemistry, because she said that the introductory course was the MOST important one for the students.
Mary received awards for outstanding teaching from Brock, from the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations, and she was named 1992 Canadian Professor of the Year by CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Service to the University
In her 35 years at Brock, Mary took her turns as Chemistry Chair, member of Senate, and she served on several university committees. When a wheelchair-bound student could not work at a standard height lab bench Mary formed a group of university staff that developed a hydraulic chair to accommodate such students. Mary chaired the interdisciplinary committee that designed and implemented the Women’s Studies Program.
Though Mary has been gone from Brock for years she is anything but forgotten. On March 5, 2020 her wonderful smile appeared in the Brock News, along with the Allanburg Women’s Institute and other luminaries in Michelle Pressé’s illustrated article, Brock Women Who Made - And Changed - the University’s History. You can find the actual article either by using Google or by visiting www.brocku.ca.
Mary’s Non-Academic Pursuits
Church - Mary was an active member of St. George’s Anglican Church for many years, serving in her turn as Warden. Becoming a Licensed Lay Reader was a significant step in her faith expression. Dementia eventually put an end to her religious life. Rev. Martha Tatarnic, the current Rector says that to this day the people of St. George’s often tell her ‘Mary stories.’ When we can eventually hold the Celebration of Mary’s life at St. George’s we hope that her nieces will be able to travel from Lexington to hear those stories.
CFUW - In the early stage of dementia Mary continued, with Mary Bondarchuk’s help, to enjoy her St. Catharines University Women’s Club membership in a ‘Gourmet Group.’ that she had joined in the late 1970s. Those gals had not simply cooked a demure monthly dinner together for over twenty years. In times past occasional food field trips had been mounted, including a memorable cooking & tent camping weekend at Rock Point Provincial Park.
Cooking - As one might expect, Mary was a skilled and imaginative cook. Adventurous too. Some still alive today will recall the early 1970s chemistry department party when Mary barbecued a goose stuffed with 40 heads (not cloves) of garlic. As Mary told the story, the heady (overwhelming?) bouquet of goose crackling over charcoal lured the guests out to the back yard at the precise moment the goose grease burst into flames. Chemists are practical folk, not given to panic. Someone asked, “Where do you keep the baking sofa?” and fetched it from the kitchen. Guests took turns spackling the goose. The meal was an unlikely success.
Mary had tamer specialties such as steak in ‘Mexican’ marinade of garlic, cumin and orange juice, Kentucky spoon bread - a cornmeal-based soufflé, and her famous citrus based avocado ice cream found in a cookbook published long ago by Louisiana Home Economics teachers. Several years Mary baked very fine breads, especially back when Byers’ Feed & Seed on King Street carried a wide variety of flours. Julia Child’s portrait always hung beside the kitchen telephone.
Brewing - Mary is possibly best remembered for her beer brewing, and the beer tastings she organized for social evenings and fund raisers for St. George’s, for the St. Catharines Lakeshore Rotary Club, and for various other clubs and community groups.
It all started for Mary when she first tasted a fresh draft small brewery English ale on an evening pub crawl at a chemistry conference in the medieval town of York, England in the early 1980s In those days there were no craft breweries in Ontario. All beers seemed to taste the same. But having once tasted an English Bitter and a Dark Ale in England there was no going back to the beers Ontario was used to. So it was that one winter evening Mary announced that she was going up Ontario Street to Woolco for kitty litter and returned with two John Bull beer kits as well. Those first two batches, produced and bottled in the kitchen, were eventually pronounced ‘horrible’ and poured down the drain.
Mary started reading about zymurgy, the science of brewing beer. She kept meticulous notes, improved her technique, and began producing beers worth drinking. Early on, after taking the basement stairs on her backside with her arms wrapped around a 6.5-gallon glass carboy of hot wort (not a drop spilled) Mary built a brewery/summer kitchen downstairs vented to the outdoors. Thereafter the neighbours could smell every batch.
Mary made a serious study of brewing, right down to the kinds of barley and varieties hops she might use. Eventually Mary began every batch with a sack of two-row or six-row barley depending on the intended style of beer. She sprouted (malted) it herself. She ground up the malted barley and heated it in a stainless-steel cauldron of water and yeast to make the liquid wort that she then poured into the big glass carboy. A vented cap to release excess gas was fixed to the neck, and the wort was left to ferment. When making a dark beer like stout or porter Mary would spread malted two-row barley on sheet pans to roast in the oven, a smoky procedure, before she carted it downstairs to be cooked with water and yeast to make the wort for fermenting.
Everything Mary brewed was drinkable. Some was very fine indeed. So, she entered home brew competitions all over northern New York State and southern Ontario. The prizes started coming home with her – huge red or sometimes gold rosettes that she had professionally framed to adorn the walls of her home brewery. The height of her competition wins was placing 1st in the American Home Brewers Association’s 1989 North American Dark Ale championship.
About that time the craft brewery movement had put an excellent commercial craft brewery in almost every Ontario town of size, all producing wonderful beers. It was no longer necessary to brew her own beer.
Having won the top prize in her favourite Dark Ale style, Mary hung up her apron and gave more energy to the beer tastings mentioned above. For something more rigorous she turned to judging in the same Home Brew competitions in which she used to compete. Of course, Mary made a serious study of judging, and reached the top qualification of ‘Recognized Beer Judge.’
Mary the Naturalist: Hiking and Camping
Mary started making backpacking trips in Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest and on the Appalachian Trail with grad school friends. In Ontario she earned the blue and gold Bruce Trail End-to-End patch, having covered the entire trail from Queenston to Tobermory over twenty years, one hike at a time. In her early Niagara days Mary worked on Bruce Trail maintenance, repainting the white blazes, hauling out paper litter, beer bottles, pop cans and cigarette butts. Sometimes as a task requiring muscle, she would help to erect stiles over fences that intersected the trail on the Niagara Section.
Mary also went camping every year, often solo, until the dementia struck. She would lead hikes for the BTC or friends teaching about the ferns, mosses, and wildflowers in the Spring, and mushrooms in the late Summer and Autumn. When camping she often foraged. She was a careful and expert mycologist who gathered mushrooms everywhere she went, both here and abroad. She would exclude the poisonous and merely edible ones, then provide a picnic table banquet of mushrooms gathered along trails, in meadows, on roadsides, on tree trunks, in forests, and in the flower beds on the Brock Campus.
Mischief
Mary was capable of mischief. Back at grad school in Lexington Mary led a car full of chemistry students in an experiment. Even high school chemistry students know that Sodium is explosive in water. Mary and her friends wanted to see just how explosive. One evening at a bridge over the Kentucky River the ‘short straw’ went to the middle and extracted a ping pong ball sized chunk of Sodium from the protecting oil of the jar purloined from the Chemistry department. The student threw it as far away into the river as he could and ran like hell. Initial fizzing and popping was immediately followed by one god-awful BANG!! A few days later a small article in the Herald-Leader said that investigation had failed to determine the cause of an explosion that had rattled windows in the area.
At their joint retirement luncheon Mary and Senior Demonstrator Gail Neff demonstrated how to produce hydrogen in a balloon, then exploded it to everyone’s delight as a finale to the occasion and their careers.
Mary’s Funeral and Remembering Her
On the sunny morning of September 29th, we gently laid Mary’s shrouded body and its willow carrier in the warm brown earth in the peaceful grove of trees that is the Natural Burial section of St. John’s Public Cemetery in Jordan. She is under the branches of a huge Blue Spruce. Mary’s friends and nieces thought it a fitting funeral and resting place for a woman who loved nature so much.
In the months and years to come, should you think of Mary Frances Richardson, give thanks for her life, and for the influence she had in the lives of her students, colleagues, family and friends. Don’t be sad that her life is over. Be glad that she squeezed so much into her life before her decade of dementia.
If you knew Mary, you know how lucky you were that she was part of your life. Mary would want me to say that she was lucky to have had you as part of hers, and to remind you that life is too short to drink boring beer.
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