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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear FUUSM Folx,</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">How hard it is to release the ones we love.</p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Galen LeRoy McCarty, love of my life, partner and spouse died this morning, Oct. 1, 2024 in hospice care at Marietta Memorial Hospital.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">The world’s best hugger has no more to give, but we’ll hold each other as he would, and feel the love.</p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">He was a rock, standing firm against the flowing river-<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">like the Muskingum he caught fish in, and the garden he nourished with its waters.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">This last chapter has been hard, but truly a time of blessing I am grateful for.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Rest in peace and the power of love, my dear.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">All blessings, now and always,</p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Rev. Kathryn E. Hawbaker</p></div>