There are 2 messages totaling 43 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Bonnie Pardoe News (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:00:09 -0500 From: "brutledge@c......." <brutledge@c.......> Subject: Bonnie Pardoe News Hi everyone, I really don't know how to do this kind of message, but I felt I should let the fandom know that Bonnie passed away in November. She loved Forever Knight, and I feel lucky that I got to experience her friendship through this show. We only visited once in person, but over the past 19 years, Bonnie gifted me with a lifetime of silliness, supportiveness and imagination. Every fanfiction I've written since 2000 exists because of her input, encouragement, and wit. It's been hard to finish off the Vachon/Inca Conversion Day story we had planned because that was my last real conversation with Bonnie - hours of Twitter direct messages chatting about Vachon, the Incas, Pizarro and whatnot. She was the only person, the perfect person, with whom I could have had that exact chat, and I will miss the gifts of her intelligence and personality. Bonnie believed being a regular blood donor was important, and she went to work for the Red Cross out of a desire to help others. If you are interested in honoring Bonnie's memory in some material way, please consider donating to The American Red Cross, Blood Drive Memorial, 6230 Claremont Ave., Oakland, CA. 94618 Best wishes and health to all in our fandom family, Bonnie Rutledge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 21:30:48 +0000 From: libratsie@s....... Subject: Re: Bonnie Pardoe News I am.... grief stricken once again. Bonnie and I visited in person several times, mostly when we went to see Greg Kramer. She introduced us on-line. Traveling with her was a pleasure as she always had suggestions for things she knew I'd love like the Royal Ontario Museum. The first time we met in person, I traveled from Arkansas to Oakland, California in pre-cellphone days not totally assured she wasn't really an axe murderer.<g> (We'd both been at Bridging the Knight although I didn't remember her.) I arrived at the Oakland airport to find no one waiting for me. I wasn't worried at first, but then slowly the entire airport emptied. I was about to ask an employee for an idea as to what I should do when I heard "LIBBY!!!!" and she came running through the place after having been caught in traffic. We traveled together to Vancouver Canada to meet Greg who was performing in a play there. He met us in the bar afterwards, asked which of us was "Libs - the one who writes comic books," dug "the Ratsie Wot Kilt Screed" from my bag, and began running around showing his castmates the creature which he held by the tail (to my horror). Bonnie looked at me and said, "I can't win. I'll get drinks - he obviously likes you better." We both had a great laugh and it started a long running game of who did he like better. I became extremely ill coming back and when we were back in Oakland, she took me immediately to the ER figuring I would be staying with her for a while. They did let me travel home but my layover during which she was going to show me San Francisco was eaten up. We talked about me going back out to make that up, but it never happened. We did get to explore Toronto together on several occasions, memories I will cherish - especially the argument with Greg over a shooting location. He wasn't in that scene so we won. I'm sure passerbys wondered about that ... discussion ;-) Oh - and on one of those trips we were walking down the sidewalk to a theater when we spotted someone sitting on a stone fence reading. In tandem, we took steps back. It was Ger. Travel well, Bonnie! Say hi to Greg for me. I'm sure he's with me on every audition, every time I take the stage, and every time I step in front of the camera. Now you will be as well. --Libs ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 30 Nov 2015 to 1 Dec 2015 (#2015-102) **************************************************************
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