onthisday

On this day, our thoughts are with you, as you prepare to pay your respects to

Ruth Mitchell-Pitts

Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Aunt and Sister.

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My contact with my Sister- Ruth, in adult life, were forcibly sporadic, due to the distances between our chosen countries of Residence, but I followed her career and family life from a distance.

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Her habit of supporting people with large deliveries of publications, books, music - amongst other things - occasionally presented me with a problem of finding space, but they were appreciated, since English language publications were rarely readily available to myself and my wife Kathleen.

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My last personal contact with Ruth was on the occasion of my visit to N.Carolina in 1993, when I had the pleasure of spending time with her and her family in their home, at a difficult period of my own life.

I enjoyed my visit and their welcome.

Following my cardiac problems, I was pleased to receive a letter from Ruth together with a collection of Books, to "cheer me up" as she said!

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Why such tragedies touch our lives is, and will remain for me, a mystery.

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To my great regret, I will be unable to be present on this sad occasion, for various reasons, but my thoughts are with you all - on this day.

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Joining me with her condolences, is Mme Magali Coicadin, who never met Ruth, but had telephone contact at the period of the decease of Dr. Rev.T.C.Mitchell - our father.

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

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Our sincere condolences.

(Ian W. Mitchell) - (Magali Coicadin)

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

David Sarnoff

30600, Vauvert, France April 2009.