Well, it is Christmas eve and very happy holidays of your choosing again to all of you. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really choose to celebrate any of them being a lapsed xtian who took his business noelsewhere but I enjoy dabbling with others who do.<\/p>\n
:menorah: :santacool:<\/p>\n
This was the day a year ago that Roxie S. Grant, better known here as roxieseattle, left this life. She had already disappeared from ours a few months earlier after revealing that she had something suddenly going wrong in her head. We did not find out about her passing until a few months later. I think everyone already expected the worst. <\/p>\n
There is little I know of her final months but I hope they were not miserable but rather a grand exit. I am sad that she did not want to share any of them with us but I understand. I was able to learn a bit more about her when I was trying to figure out what happened including her 60s involvement in Seattle activism and alternative press. One of her \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wrote a book about those days that sbluheron tracked down and generously procured copies of for a number of us. <\/p>\n
I found the following notice in her pharm school alumni letter I think may have posted earlier this year. <\/p>\n
Roxie Grant, \u00e2\u20ac\u212295, passed away on I still miss her and regret that I never really met her. I am sorry I never got the Richard and Mimi Farina disc together that I wanted to send her.<\/p>\n :jesus: \ud83d\ude41 :gate: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, it is Christmas eve and very happy holidays of your choosing again to all of you. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really choose to celebrate any of them being a lapsed xtian who took his business noelsewhere but I enjoy dabbling with others who do. :menorah: :santacool: This was the day a year ago that Roxie S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDec. 24, 2007 at the age of 60 from brain
\ncancer. Roxie was born in Missoula, Mont.
\nShe graduated from high school in Spokane
\nand moved to Seattle in the late 1960s. In
\nthe 1970s Roxie worked as an office manager
\nand bookkeeper at the Seattle King County
\nCouncil on Alcoholism and at a social
\nservices agency that served homeless youth
\nin the university district. She was very active
\nin the social justice and antiwar movements
\nand together with her sister, Sharma Oliver,
\nhelped friend Walter Crowley found the
\nHelics, a publication that gave voice to
\nthese movements. She worked hard and
\novercame many obstacles to attain her
\ngoal of attending college. She graduated
\nfrom pharmacy school at the age of 48.
\nRoxie worked as a night pharmacist for the
\ntwenty-four hour Rite Aid at the Factoria
\nSquare Mall in Bellevue. Her patients and
\ncolleagues greatly appreciated her tremendous
\ndedication as a pharmacist as well as
\nher friendliness, kindness and great sense
\nof humor. Roxie was also very active in
\nanimal rescue and nursed many animals
\nback to health. Roxie is survived by her
\nsister Sharon Kilburg and nieces, Angela
\nOliver and Katherine Stearns.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n