In memoriam Roberta "Bobbi" Dunker (1946-2022)

[larryhammer]

So at 4am last Friday, on Eaglet's 9th birthday, we got a call we expected but were hoping would be later: janni's mother had passed away. She'd been in and out of hospitals the past couple months with complications from cancer that had metastasized from her lungs, and readmitted earlier that week -- but this time the expectation was she had "hours or days."

She was working up to the end -- a union organizer, former president of her local and still business agent. After her previous hospitalization the previous month, she'd finally agreed during our visit that it was time to retire, but not until the end of the year after she'd time to train her replacement. She was not a woman to give up easily.

Obituary here. The service was at her village cemetery, down the road just past the 5th house from hers. It was good.

Fuck cancer.

Comments

[sovay]

janni's mother had passed away.

Her memory for a blessing.

Feh.

[larryhammer]

Amein

[watersword]

I'm so sorry for your loss. May her memory be a blessing.

[larryhammer]

Thank you.

[rebeccmeister]

Agreed, fuck cancer.

I hope there is comfort in sharing memories and stories with loved ones, and in carrying on/supporting the work she clearly felt deeply about.

[larryhammer]

The eulogies at the funeral were very good. It ended with janni's brother, who closed with a song (on guitar) that Bobbi would play on repeat while cleaning: "The Gambler."

[gwynnega]

Her memory for a blessing.

[larryhammer]

Thank you.

[genarti]

I'm so sorry. She sounds absolutely wonderful -- a force of nature in great and inspiring ways.

Fuck cancer.

[larryhammer]

She was.

[movingfinger]

Roberta sounds like a wonderful person, one who will be much missed in the world and one whose teaching and example will continue to make the world a better place.

My condolences on your family's loss.

[larryhammer]

Thank you. She was.

[sartorias]

Oh I am so very sorry. She sounded like an excellent woman, one we did not need to lose during the anxious days.

Fuck cancer indeed.

[larryhammer]

She was.

[ranunculus]

I'm so sorry to hear that. Much Sympathy.

[larryhammer]

Thank you.

[thistleingrey]

Fuck cancer.

[larryhammer]

YES

[graydon]

Very sorry for your loss.

[larryhammer]

Thank you.

[puddleshark]

I am so sorry. She sounds like a wonderful person.

[larryhammer]

She was. Thank you.

[cmcmck]

I'm sorry for your loss.

The world hasn't so many great people that we can afford to lose those there are!

[larryhammer]

Thank you.

[mrissa]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[larryhammer]

Thank you.

[oracne]

I'm so sorry for your family's loss.

[larryhammer]

Thank you.

[marjorie1170]

Very sorry for your loss. It is hard losing our elders.

[larryhammer]

It is. Our second parent (plus two step-parents) down, two left.