~ Bathi, Sharon, Brittany & TJ, Naomi, and Courtneyįirst, condolences to the Williams and Random family. Our love, thoughts, and prayers will be with all of you as we celebrate Lois’s beautiful life. That is what it was all about, wasn’t it? Love, caring, and compassion, about which she so artfully wrote to Ben in 2005. As I read Lois’s life accomplishments, when her feet were nimble and light, when she moved from one successful project to another, we can all feel the strong fabric of love and caring that she built for those around her. We were fortunate enough to meet Lois in 2009 when we visited Portland and relived precious memories and shared stories about our growing families. We still treasure it and will hand it down to Brittany, your godchild, when she will hopefully have her first born. Before our first daughter Brittany was born in Chapel Hill in 1993, Lois and Charles gifted us a beautiful handmade changing table. Sharon and Lois exchanged many ideas on sewing which they both loved. Charles played his washtub bass once and I recall a Dulcimer that he had bought from a mountain city in North Carolina showing up one time. The many times we had dinner at your house, it was accompanied by music and singing. Soon we become friends through the Newman Center where we attended weekly mass and met Lois and the Corrina, Kristin, and Ben. My friend Francisco and I were doing laundry while Charles was holding and lulling an infant while her mom could finish her laundry.

I first met Charles in a laundromat in Chapel Hill’s married student housing in Odum Village. I tell you this neither as someone who knew her well nor as someone who is very good at total recall, but simply remembering the many times Lois and Charles have shared with Sharon and I, a colorful pallet of possibilities in life from which we were able sketch our own pathways.

The watercolor was entitled “Lexington Avenue Express” and was painted in 1993 and is still for purchase on Ebayĭear Charles, Corrina, Kristin, and Ben and your families: I guess everyone wants to be the birth of something artistic like that. I just watched an excerpt from a PBS Oregon show he appeared on, and he seemed to have such a nice Non-threatening approach to random people on the street that he asked if he could take a photo of them because he might turn it into a painting. I noticed some other possibly acrylic paintings he has done of a woman with a man and at least two different poses. One of The figures in the painting looks familiar, as if she modeled for him in a poster stage situation. As a professional photographer, I highly suspected that this one image was taken and referenced from one of his photos that he would capture. WESTERMAN, but I have followed a series of twist interns have been found one of his watercolors that I purchased from a Goodwill in Arlington Virginia.

Spirit of the Knight by Debbie Peterson