I tend to save and "binge read" digests but for some reason, opened this one yesterday, saw Marion's name and knew the worst. (Thank you, Jo Ann, for sharing the sad news so promptly in view of the digest's time lag.) Marion first caught my attention at Ithaca in 2001 and we were classmates in Bedfordshire, Lier and Carrickmacross several times after that. Marion was present when I gave Mary Shields the partly- worked Carrickmacross piece designed by Mary's Irish "Lace Muse", Annie Clark, which I had found in Ottawa. In 2016 I took Marion's Carrickmacross Class at Convention so that she could help me re-draft that piece - I knew it needed her inspired feel for line and symmetry, and her impeccable technique. As too often, she was struggling with the effects of therapy but riding her scooter with customary verve. Walking beside her after class I couldn't keep up or help avoid the encounter with an elevator door that made her a cheerful, wise-cracking captive behind it for ! several hours before being rescued! I'm sure all who knew her were as much in awe of that humour, sheer will and courage in the face of her health issues as we were of her artistic and technical talents, shown in her lace and the many crafts she mastered, to bestow on us the exquisite hand-made tools, jewels and trinkets that will preserve her memory. I feel blessed to have been her classmate again last year in Greet's Lier class, glad that she enjoyed one more Ithaca weekend that I'm sorry to have missed, but know her gifts and dauntless spirit are alive in our hearts.
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