OT: Let's do something nice and celebrate a wonderful life (picture of Marguerite added on 19th post

EchoCanyon

My next door neighbor will be 95 on July 23rd.

She was an only child, never married and didn't have kids. I live on a wonderful block and we all look in on her.
She would be quick to tell you that she had an AMAZING life, as one of the country's first female travel writers. (She would travel with a typewriter in a box the way we carry around laptops.)

I thought it would great if I got all my friends, both on the CU boards and not, to send her a card.

You could sign your name or write 'someone who thinks you're special'.

I did this when she turned 90 and she got 172 cards -- from all over the world -- and she talked about it for years.

Let's break that number. Feel free to pass this around to your friends.

Her name/address is:

Marguerite Aumann
41 Crestwood Avenue
Tuckahoe, NY 10707

Thanks,

Gregg

KeepItWarm

I'm down with this. Old Schoolers are sweet!

I'll pop in a picture of my wife and I so she can see who is wishing her happy Birthday.

nightcrawler

Great thread Echo, I'd like to send her something from the heart.


Cheers good buddy, thanks for the feel good thread.

nightcrawler

oops, double post...

EchoCanyon

<< <i>Great thread Echo, I'd like to send her something from the heart.


Cheers good buddy, thanks for the feel good thread. >>



Cheers indeed!

scmavl

I forgot to mention... I wrote her a one page letter and mailed it to her on Wednesday. My grandmother turns 95 this year as well.

miconelegacy

I'll do the same!!! My kids and I are working on it now. Fantastic idea!!

Edit: Cards all made up and filling out envelope to send out.

Thanks for the idea and opportunity.

EchoCanyon

who else is in?

cpamike

<< <i>who else is in? >>



If you tell me what "100" means, I'm in.

By the way, besides being a travel writer does she have any other interests, hobbies? Would like to make the card as personal as possible.

miconelegacy

My 3 kids each made home made birthday cards, and I wrote her a nice note to go along. We mailed it on Monday, so she should have gotten it today if not tomorrow.

My kids where all excited and this was a really great idea.

Thanks for giving everyone the opportunity. I'm actually surprised with the amount of people on this forum that mail items weekly, there hasn't been a greater response.

If your reading this, take a few minutes and make a homemade card and put it in the mail. The reward of the smile it will create is priceless. Come on who else is in on this????

Let's go!!!

EchoCanyon

<< <i> By the way, besides being a travel writer does she have any other interests, hobbies? Would like to make the card as personal as possible. >>



Gardening, reading, traveling.

Loves history and is the town historian. Our neighborhood site needed updating, but she wrote ALL of mycrestwood.org -- in her 80s.

For those from NY, she walked on the Bronx River Parkway the week it opened (BRP may have been the first parkway with exits, ever -- check wikipedia).

Norman Rockwell painted the town train station on a Saturday Evening Post cover in 1946 -- she could name about 12 people in the picture.

Dboneesq

Bump for Mrs. Aumann.

miconelegacy

Seriously where is all the love????

WinPitcher

Done.

She lives about 20 miles from me.

cpamike

Even though you still didn't tell me what "100" means, I'm still sending Ms. Aumann a card. Actually dropping it in the mailbox right after I'm done posting.

I hope she likes the Ryan RC I sent her.

miconelegacy

Way to go Mike!! Only a few days left to mail out a card. I'll paypal anyone that can't afford the postage. If you read this post get to writing, you don't even have to buy a card, just make one!!!

EchoCanyon

She has already received 15 cards and is completely giddy

miconelegacy

It's thinks like this, that don't cost really much, but the reward and payout is priceless. Life is all about impacting people in a positive way, and this activity does just that.

I wish more people in this world realized that, that it only takes a moment sometimes to really make somebody's day.

Thanks EchoCanyon.

EchoCanyon

Here's a picture of Marguerite with some of her treasured cards:

scmavl

That is GREAT, I love the picture. Less than a week after I mailed my letter to her, I lost my 93 year old grandfather whom I had always been very close to. I'm even more glad I wrote your neighbor now.

EchoCanyon

great pic bump

kgibson

Birthday card from Indiana is on its way.

EchoCanyon

Indiana bump

kgibson

Gregg
How did the birthday card project end up? It was nice of you to do that for her.

EchoCanyon

<< <i>Gregg
How did the birthday card project end up? It was nice of you to do that for her. >>



KG:

I think the card project is ongoing, and I hope more come next week, but as of today, I'd say 75 or so cards came.

Yesterday (her birthday), I stopped over in the morning to wish her a happy b-day and bring her a cake my wife made. She was beaming with her basket filled with cards, then she asked me to open the ones from Friday and read them to her. (Her aide had helped her with the other ones).

There was a pile of maybe 20-25 and it was a thrill to open them and read them to her. Some were from college friends, some from my LinkedIn and some from the boards here. I'm glad I had that chance and she inspected every card and picture.

A BIG thank you to all who sent a card.

Gregg

P.S. Just because her birthday passed, don't let that stop you from sending a card, okay?

miconelegacy

Gregg this was a wonderful gesture. I showed my 3 kids the picture if who they sent their cards to, and then I read a few of the posts.

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