Well, it is Christmas eve and very happy holidays of your choosing again to all of you. I don’t 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. 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.

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 ‘pals’ wrote a book about those days that sbluheron tracked down and generously procured copies of for a number of us.

I found the following notice in her pharm school alumni letter I think may have posted earlier this year.

Roxie Grant, ’95, passed away on
Dec. 24, 2007 at the age of 60 from brain
cancer. Roxie was born in Missoula, Mont.
She graduated from high school in Spokane
and moved to Seattle in the late 1960s. In
the 1970s Roxie worked as an office manager
and bookkeeper at the Seattle King County
Council on Alcoholism and at a social
services agency that served homeless youth
in the university district. She was very active
in the social justice and antiwar movements
and together with her sister, Sharma Oliver,
helped friend Walter Crowley found the
Helics, a publication that gave voice to
these movements. She worked hard and
overcame many obstacles to attain her
goal of attending college. She graduated
from pharmacy school at the age of 48.
Roxie worked as a night pharmacist for the
twenty-four hour Rite Aid at the Factoria
Square Mall in Bellevue. Her patients and
colleagues greatly appreciated her tremendous
dedication as a pharmacist as well as
her friendliness, kindness and great sense
of humor. Roxie was also very active in
animal rescue and nursed many animals
back to health. Roxie is survived by her
sister Sharon Kilburg and nieces, Angela
Oliver and Katherine Stearns.

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.

:jesus: 🙁 :gate: