The Family Patriarch Passes

-------Original Message-------
From: Walter & Ariane Roy
Date: 7/3/2012 11:51:44 PM
To: Lisa Earle; Julie Ruden
Subject: Walter

Dear Lisa and Julie

Tonight Walter died at 4 o'clock in the mornig. He is redeemed.

Love Ariane and boys



-------Original Message-------
Dearest Ariane and boys:

Thanks for letting us know...Somehow, we thought he could beat his troubles once more, he was so strong and willful with his wonderful mind and loved life!.. He now is in a better world, where we all will meet someday...

Sadly, lovingly, Lisa


-------Original Message-------
From: Lenny Ruden
Date: 7/4/2012 8:54:12 AM
To: Dr. Lisa Earle
Subject: Re: Walter

I'm so sorry he was a very special person and will be missed greatly... please send me arianes email and I will respond

Sent from my iPad




-------Original Message-------
From: Julie Ruden
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 10:00 AM
To: 'Walter & Ariane Roy'
Subject: RE: Walter


Dearest Ariane, Horst & Flori,


SUCK OUT LOUD!!!! SOoooo SORRY!!!

Last night in Lake Placid, FL we had fireworks - the finally (biggest display) was just before 10PM and I was thinking of Walter and that we would call you’all this morning..

It is America’s independence Day today NOT yesterday - but we had fireworks while Sir Uncle Walter Roy was passing over... Well done he’d say and he will always be celebrated on our July 4th with fireworks!!!

Where will Walter be buried? I understand you are very busy, please take care of each other and be in touch soon! Let us know what you are doing.

Ariane - you & the boys are wonderful and have much life & love ahead of you!!! Think about coming to America when you are able to start to think again J I couldn’t see my keyboard to type an hour ago because of the tears - it will take awhile before your head clears.

You should not make changes for 1 year if possible... You will be in the best frame of mind and soul after 1 year... this is the best advice I can give you!

Much Love & Stay in touch

Julie








-----Original Message-----
From: Walter & Ariane Roy
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 7:59 AM
To: Julie Ruden
Cc: Lisa Earle
Subject: Re: Walter

Dearest Julie

Thank you for your helpful words. A wonderful coincidence indeed, the independence Day! Walter went away in peace with a deep satisfaction. He was affraid of death, wanted so much to know what comes after life. But after the death of his best friend John Passey he lost the wish to live. He didn't talk very much with us the last few days. The afternoon before his death he held my hand a said: I am ready now.. 8 hours later he did his last breath which was loud enough to wake up the care. She was in panic and woke me up. I saw then only Walters body, his sole had already gone.

I am so glad that the end of Walter's life was according to the wish of both of us.

Coming to America some time is in my dreams but it will be a question of money. You must know Walter and I have no money left ( the cost of his care and all medical details by now is up to 5000 €!!! = 6300 USD)and I have to live with half of Walter's pension now. In 2015 I'll get a little pension from Switzerland. Hope my finacial situation will be more relaxed by then. We will see if I can hold the house. Worst case: selling the house!

Walters body is now in the University of Graz for science (I will do the same with mine.) So there will be neither burial nor cremation. We will have a little ceremony in our house on the 14th July with all our closest friends. This was our wish. Kate, Walter's daughter, will organise a big Memorial service in Norwich at Walter's Hewettschool in October. So everybody who wants to say good by can do it then.

Hug you and Lisa... (My keyboard is wet too)

Love Ariane and boys









-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Lisa Earle
To: Debbie Weiss; Kenneth W. Aschheim
Sent: Wed, Jul 4, 2012 7:54 am
Subject: Fw: Walter

To let you know: Forwarding sad news....He was 87....He was the first cousin of your Grandma, Roszi...

Hope all is well with you!
Love, Lisa







-------Original Message-------
From: Debbie(Aschheim) Weiss
Date: 7/4/2012 3:38:50 PM
To: Dr. Lisa
Cc: Rachel Weiss
Subject: Re: Walter

Dearest Lisa and Julie:

I am sorry for the loss of Walter, and for your loss. He was a very devoted cousin to you. Although I did not know him well, it was nice meeting him at Paul Dutch's wedding, which I attended in Nottingham (and I have very fond memories of the trip). He was a very kind man and I guess his family is correct --- he is redeemed.

How are you doing? I hope you are feeling well.

We are doing very well. Racheli is spending the summer in Israel. She will tour for 5 weeks. She spend last week with David and got to do a lot of babysitting for Eitan (now 9 months old!) She had a blast. She will then spend 2 weeks after the trip with her friends and also with David. She is very independent, and felt/feels very comfortable bumming around on her own.

Daniel is hanging around taking a summer school course and will help a sick lawyer friend in July and August. He will dorm at Brooklyn College next year.

Robert and I are traveling to Italy to celebrate our 30th Anniversary and Robert's 55th Birthday.

Keep well and keep in touch.

Love, Debbie and Robert







-------Original Message-------
From: Dave Ruden
Date: 7/5/2012 3:38:50 PM
To: Debbie(Aschheim) Weiss

>...Racheli is spending the summer in Israel. She will tour for 5 weeks. She spend last week with David and got to do a lot of babysitting for Eitan (now 9 months old!) She had a blast. She will then spend 2 weeks after the trip with her friends and also with David. She is very independent, and felt/feels very comfortable bumming around on her own.

She reminds me of her mother :).
Nice to hear things are well for you all.
Happy Anniversary to you both and happy birthday to Robert!
Love,
---Dave & Pam.







-------Original Message-------
Dear Ariane, Horst, and Florian,
I am so sad to hear about Walter's passing. It has been difficult to bring myself to find the right words to say. Walter was an inspiration to me in ways I do not believe he ever knew. Visits on occasion as children with our mother created an appreciation of culture and experiential differences that has nested deep inside and burns strongly in me each day.

Walter was a quiet man, but with a keen mind, and strong well reasoned opinions and beliefs which when appropriate, he would expose and discuss. I think my early childhood visits with him imprinted much of this in me. To observe, think, make opinions and conclusions on ones own terms, without a blind following of the mob.

And at the same time, Walter was a man who greatly loved the passions and energies of life. I did not realize this about him until much later. He was not afraid to engage life. In so many ways, we were kindred spirits in this, as I too love the energies and passions of life, and love those who have the freedom of spirit to live them. Although where Walter seemed to know how to engage this passion by instinct, it has been something I have had to learn. And here too Walter was inspiring to me. As I came to know him more fully, I learned a quiet personality does not mean disengagement from life's energies. He so loved Julie and my mother because they have strong life-energies. He liked my ex-wife because she too was full of intense life energy (although I think he could see the problems that caused her). I believe he saw also this wonderful passion for life in my wonderful new wife, Pammie, and appreciated the sensibility she brings with it was finally the right mix for me.

And I am certain that it is your own ebullience and your love of the experience of life that drew him to you. You are the kind of spirit he and I love to have near us, love to draw strength and inspiration from, love to share life with. I hope you are happy in knowing that you have enriched his life. I know that he certainly has done so for me.


All our love and sympathies, and looking forward to visiting with you and the boys someday soon - on this continent or yours.
---Dave and Pam.