In Memoriam -- Judy Warburton

Leo and Judy, Thanksgiving 2005


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Judy died at about 4:15 yesterday (Saturday) at Pikes Peak Hospice, surrounded reverently and attentively by friends and family, after a massive stroke. She was 61 years old. Leo, her husband, and my brother-in-spirit, had his hand on her head and i had my hand on her heart as she took her last breaths. A nurse came in and he listened to her heart, and said "She's gone". We sang amazing grace and "humble yourself in the sight of the Lord", a song she liked very much, with Leo playing guitar. Except for a break or two, Leo and I stayed with her body from the dying process, as it lost its warmth and turned pale cool to the touch, accompanied it out of the building, covered in a blue blanket with a pink carnation on top from the hospice staff. Leo asked the funeral home guys to uncover her face one last time. He kissed her goodbye, and I kissed her arm. The funeral home staff put her body in the van. Her body will be cremated.

Judy will be remembered for her kindness and sensitivity to people, her love of animals, her devotion to the Blessed Mother, her innocence, her drawings, and her pithy comments, such as : "If there are 12 guys in a restaurant, one of them is bound to fart."

There will be a memorial service tomorrow.