Bob (Frank) Cloward
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According to Jeanette Winkel, his friend and dance partner, we lost another long time dancer on Friday May 7 th. Bob (Frank) Cloward, died at his home in Apache Junction. He was a regular at many of
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Michael J Dascher
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The dance community lost another dancer (especially from the Wednesday afternoon dances at Aster Red Mountain Senior Center). Michael J Dascher, on March 26, 2021. He was 76. Services were held in
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MM-Mary Volberding
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Barbara Loveall (1936 - 2021)
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On February 18, 2021, we lost another former Merrymaker (long time treasurer of the organization). Our condolences go out to her family.
"Barbara Loveall Obituary - (1936 - 2021) - Decatur, IL -
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Dorothy Reutzel
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Dorothy Reutzel passed away peacefully on Tuesday, 02-23-2021 after a long battle with cancer.
Our condolences go out to Erv. Dorothy was a beautiful person (as you can see in this picture) and will
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Wally Schwartz
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We lost another musician yesterday. Wally Schwartz, leader of the Sunland Dance Band (Red Mountain Senior Center (now Aster) on every Wednesday afternoon and Granite Reef Senior Center on many
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Gerald "Mike" Reed
#obit
Received the following from Marlene Reed yesterday: " Mike passed away late yesterday afternoon [January 6, 2021] with my arms around him and Rick holding his hand. Thank you for your prayers, emails,
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MM-Mary Volberding
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Friends
FROM ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER
Take two minutes to read these sayings and be sure to read all the way to the bottom:
Written by Andy Rooney, a man who had the gift of saying so much with so few
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MM-Mary Volberding
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Re: Betty Page's birthday is today Nov 4, 2020
Looks like I didn't include her picture, from this year's Black & White ball at GRSC.
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MM-Mary Volberding
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Betty Page's birthday is today Nov 4, 2020
Betty Page is 93 yrs old today and she’s pretty much isolated.
If you’d like to send her a card, her address is 7416 E Windsor Ave, Scottsdale, AZ 85257
Her phone#: 480 947 7041.
I talked to her
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MM-Mary Volberding
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GaiaDance!
For anyone who might be interested.
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GaiaDance!
with David Nicol & Kate Naga
A zoom dance party to
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MM-Mary Volberding
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Manuel Farewell
Beverly Rubenstein, Vyda Bridwell and I took Manuel out for a “farewell” lunch on Thursday, September 17th. I presented him with a collage of 180 of his East Valley dance friends, past & present,
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Granite Reef pictures
#photos
Here is a link to pictures for those of you who attended a dance at Granite Reef where Troy was taking pictures, including the last dance there, The Black & White Ball. His pictures are now available
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MM-Mary Volberding
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Thank you from Billie (Linda, Chet & ME)
Pictures of Billie on her birthday, plus collage of 97 dancer friends (from Tuesdays & Thursdays).
She got 24 cards!
She was so happy
Thank you to everyone who sent her a card.
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MM-Mary Volberding
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Billie Baldwin Dwyer ’s 97th Birthday
On August 9 it is Billie Baldwin Dwyer’s birthday. She will be 97. She has been in lockdown and has not seen anybody since March.
If we could all get together and send her cards that would really
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MM-Mary Volberding
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Sad news for the dance community from Manuel Dorantes
I received the following from one of the Valley’s favorite musicians, Manuel Dorantes:
“I wish I would have good news, but, as everybody knows about this COVIG19 situation, I have not work since
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Re: Ron Grimm
#obit
Oh, I am saddened at his passing. I hope he did not suffer a lot. I keep
reminding myself how blessed we were for the wonderful seasons of dancing
we had together with our friends.
wrote:
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Ron Grimm
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Received this from fellow dancer and past Merrymaker, Pat Kroes:
Just want to let you that my dance partner, Ronald (Ron) Grimm, just died from the Covid-19. He got sick and it went from one thing to
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Bill Frye
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I received this today from Diane Booth
"I got a phone call the end of April from Gloria telling me that Bill contracted the virus about April 14 in nursing home and died I think it was April
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link to your
#photos
Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is staying safe and is making it through this difficult period. I wanted to place the link and password to your gallery of ?#photos on this
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Thoughts From An 80 Year Old Man:
I know this has nothing to do we dancing, but I’m choosing to share it with all of you.
I talked with a man today, an 80+-year-old man. I asked him if there was anything I can get him while this
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MM-Mary Volberding
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