Stories about Ann
This is where you will be able to tell the stories of your loved one. Friends and family can share entire chapters or just a few words about the departed.
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Full Circle, again...
December 20, 2011
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Dear Friends of Annie, Well, it's hard to believe it's been 2 years since I posted about being at the Medicine Wheel, to witness the solstice sun drop below the horizon. It had been 9 months ...
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Mar-Lu 2011
November 26, 2011
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Happy Holidays to all and to you a much belated update on the Memorial Fund. With another holiday I miss Ann as much as ever. I will never forget taking her to college and seeing the home my parents ...
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Ann's memorial to Terry
August 26, 2011
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It has been 2 1/2 years since Annie passed, and I was going through some of her things when I found this "eulogy" that Annie wrote. It is what she ...
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Missing Ann
March 31, 2011
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It is a beautiful, almost hot, sunny day here. I continue to miss Ann's gentle wisdom and loving presence, as we all we do. Good luck to all of Ann's friends and family; I hope to ...
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Gone but not forgotten
March 31, 2011
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Well it is two years- and I still can hardly believe it. I think of you every day, This year it brings me solace to know that you and my Dad are together- Two of the greatest people ...
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Still here
March 29, 2011
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Going on 2 years and I still think of Ann very often. I guess you don't spend that much time with someone and just let them go like that. Ann, we'll always love you and miss you. Scott
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Christmas 2010
December 25, 2010
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I still think of that sweet woman every day. May all of Annie's loved ones have a merry Christmas, and find joy and peace in 2011. Tom Elbereth From The Fellowship of the Ring Snow-white! ...
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5/15/10
May 15, 2010
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I miss you Ann.
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The Memorial Fund Update
April 9, 2010
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Family and friends, Now that we are on the other side of this sad time for us all I wanted to give a long overdue update on the Memorial Fund. The initial donations totalled $5285. This is ...
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The Last Ceremony
April 7, 2010
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Ann’s Ceremony at Colorado National Monument We gathered at Colorado National Monument today, on what would have been Ann Schaffer Elder’s 52nd birthday. I arrived about 10:15, and ...
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A year without Annie
March 31, 2010
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A year without Annie I awoke before my alarm could do the job for me, around 4:45. The dawn and morning are my favorite times of day, but unfortunately on school days like this one, ...
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Thought and Prayers- a year later
March 31, 2010
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Just a few words today on this day that is stamped on our hearts forever -since no one here in Michigan but my immediate family knew Ann I felt like I needed to remember her here with those like me ...
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Remembering Ann
March 31, 2010
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Remembering Ann Elder: How is it that a year has already passed since our friend and colleague, Ann Elder, died so suddenly and so tragically. I can still remember getting the call from Tom ...
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New Year's 2010
January 1, 2010
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To all, friends and family alike, on New Year's Day: The Hasidic master Rabbi Zusya, on his deathbed, said the following to his grieving disciples, “In the coming world, they ...
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Merry Christmas Annie....
December 25, 2009
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As this Christmas evening is ending, I am reflecting on the joys of the season and this day, a bit more empty than in years past. It is a beautiful evening in Tucson and the stars are beginning ...
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At the Medicine Wheel
December 21, 2009
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At the Medicine Wheel I visited the Little Brush Creek Medicine Wheel with the Mountain Club on December 20th. Thus, it was actually Winter Solstice Eve. We had received permission ...
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NPS Director Ends "Core Ops"
December 5, 2009
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Posted December 4th, 2009 by Kurt Repanshek on his e-news site http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/home In a brief, four-paragraph memorandum, National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis has ...
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Thanksgiving
November 28, 2009
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On this, the first Thanksgiving without Ann, I am thankful for the wonderful friends who are bound together by their devotion to her. I thank God for her family, and mine, for the support they ...
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Stikine's Passing
November 21, 2009
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Dear Friends, Stikine had declined noticeably over the past week. She was becoming incontinent, and her breathing was ragged and labored. This morning, she couldn't move her bowels, ...
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Hounds of Heaven
November 21, 2009
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The Hound of Heaven "Halts by me that footfall; Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly? 'Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest, I am He Whom ...
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Ann our everyday saint.
November 2, 2009
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I was at Mass yesterday as we celebrated All Saints Day. November starts the month we pray for all those who have died in the past year. Clare, Kevin and I entered Ann in our book of ...
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Photos of Ann's Kestrel Release
September 7, 2009
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This was a wonderful though poignant event. Photos courtesy Kathy Paulin and Loran Hills-Martin.
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The Kestrel's Release
September 6, 2009
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Kestrel release day This is what I tried to say to the people who gathered at Remember the Maine: “Thanks for coming. This is the last official ritual in honor of Ann. Denise told me ...
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Annie's Falcon
September 5, 2009
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Ann’s Falcon 18 "There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: 19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way ...
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The Resting Place for Ann's Ashes
August 17, 2009
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Interring Annie's ...
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Another dedication to Ann
May 28, 2009
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Tom and friends, Last week the 8th Conference on Fossil Resources was held at the St George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, St George, Utah. It was a great meeting, well attended by ...
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Ann, still working miracles to protect the history of life on the earth !
May 1, 2009
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Dear Friends, I thought you would be happy to see this great progress towards the protection of our nation's paleontological resources. We know Ann devoted her life to this very ...
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Helper of the volunteers
April 22, 2009
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I recall with fondness how my acquaintance with Ann helped turn a crusty geologist into a kid again. It was not too long after arriving in Vernal and having met Ann in her professional role at ...
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Pictures from Maryland Service
April 19, 2009
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Maryland Memorial Service
April 19, 2009
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3200 Mar-Lu-Ridge Road, Jefferson, MD, 21755 East Coast Memorial Service Saturday, April 18th @ 4:00 p.m. Mar-Lu-Ridge, Conference and Educational Center 3200 Mar-Lu-Ridge Road Jefferson, MD ...
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Utah Memorial Service Saturday April 18
April 19, 2009
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138 N 100 W, Vernal, UT, 84078 On Earth Day, at St. James Catholic Church in Vernal, Utah, we will have the Western memorial service to our beloved wife, sister, aunt, daughter, and friend Ann. ...
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What would Ann want?
April 18, 2009
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I am sitting here in Michigan on a beautiful clear and sunny 75 degree day which happens so infrequently here. There are no majestic mountains or cliffs to walk to and I am 2 hours ...
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Ann's Memorial Day
April 18, 2009
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Early this morning, I made coffee, and drove up to Coyote Gulch. Walking up in the half-light of dawn, I sat in my “interview” chair (a cheesy lawn chair that I have squirreled away ...
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across the street
April 17, 2009
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I miss living across the street from Tom and Ann, and what fun and great neighbors. I was very saddened by the news. Of course I immediatly think of past memories, and as it has struck many others, I ...
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Remembering
April 17, 2009
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Remembering It is said that you will remember someone by the way they made you feel. From reading all the great stories everyone has written about Ann I can truly see she made a lot of ...
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Every Dog's, and Dog Lover's, Best Friend
April 17, 2009
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I met Ann eight years ago through Uintah Animal Care (UAC), a charitable organization that she was instrumental in founding whose members fostered and re-homed shelter dogs and cats. ...
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ALWAYS
April 16, 2009
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I remember the first time I met Ann. It was at a NPS ANCS+ training in Kemmerer, WY back in FY95. Boy... the stories she could tell about that quirky little town, but that's a whole other ...
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Our Sincere Sympathies
April 16, 2009
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To the entire NPS staff at Colorado National Monument and especially to Ann's family, all of us here at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument send our thoughts and prayers to ...
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Always Room FOr One More
April 15, 2009
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I’ve only know Annie for about the last 5 years. But boy did she leave a lasting impression. I will forever hold the time that I was blessed with knowing such a magnificent ...
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Remembering My Annie
April 14, 2009
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I knew Ann Schaffer but I did not know Ann Elder. From reading the stories here I wish I had. But nothing surprises me as the Annie I knew in school was on her way to great things. I ...
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Directions to Mar Lu Ridge (Memorial Service)
April 13, 2009
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Directions to Salem on the Mountain Chapel at Mar-Lu-Ridge: From Baltimore- Take I-70 West toward Frederck, MD. Take Exit 52 (Route 15 South/340 West). After approximately 6 miles, follow the ...
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Yes, I remember Annie
April 13, 2009
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I remember, Annie. I’m certainly not alone in struggling to find the words to describe how I remember Ann, but I found some wisdom that for me brings a bit of focus – A friend is ...
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Not Just a VIP
April 12, 2009
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Dear Tom, Don and I went with Ann to a lecture on Wednesday night, had pizza on Thursday night and waved goodbye to her Friday afternoon as she went into the CNM office to say goodbye to ...
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Ann and St. Francis of Assisi
April 12, 2009
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On this Easter Sunday as I think about my friend, Ann, I am reminded again of her radiant innate goodness, her countless acts of kindness given to all she encountered and ...
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HOPE
April 12, 2009
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Dear Tom, When I called on Sunday March 29 and your brother told me that Ann was in the hospital, I was surprised to say the least. I had no idea it was so serious. I just heard ...
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Proud to call Ann my friend
April 12, 2009
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Ann was one of the first people I met when I started work at the Dinosaur National Monument Quarry in 1990. Her calmness, intelligence, and friendliness drew me to her immediately. A few months after ...
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A life well lived
April 11, 2009
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Only once in a great while do you run across a person who, by their very nature, has a certain ease and grace about them. Ann Elder was that type of person. No matter what storms surrounded her, she ...
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Our very special friend, Ann
April 11, 2009
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What can I say about this wonderful, unassuming little woman that hasn't been said already? She was the most thoughtful, sincere, caring and compassionate person that you could ever meet. Your ...
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More photos of Ann
April 9, 2009
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Our Annie lived life large; she went places.
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Thank you, Ann
April 9, 2009
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I enjoyed the great privilege of knowing Ann Elder. I read in a novel that members of some southwest Native American tribe (Navajo? Hopi?) have a notion of the "valuable man." I ...