Suzy

Today I went to a memorial service for a wonderful woman who lost her battle with cancer last week. Suzy was a very unique person. She was spacey yet grounded. Sure of herself yet humble. Suzy was not like anyone else I know.

One memory I have of her popped in my brain as I sat there in the memorial service today. I am standing on the second floor the E. Pedregosa house on the phone that was in the hall near the stairs that went up to the third floor. Suzy is singing some sort of love song in my ear on behalf of her brother, Mike. So funny. Who would do that? Suzy would. I wonder to this day if Mike even knows about that. Well, if he is reading this... he does now.

That was just the kind of person Suzy was. She never made me feel like the tag along little sister as we all made our way home from Santa Barbara Junior High when Lori and she were 9th graders and I a lowly 7th grader. She was other oriented. She was a good person.

Being at her memorial service was sad, but in a way very comforting. Many of my memories of her are wrapped up with First Presbyterian Church and some of the people that were there today. Bill, Lori, Anne, Jim were all there. They all kind of go together. They are all comfortable. I felt like I was the little tag along sister who belonged there.

I am sorry Suzy had to suffer. I am sorry the cancer won. I am glad I went today.