[Colorado-Talk] Passing of a tremendous leader

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Thank you for sharing this.  She was a wonderful lady and will be dearly missed. My thoughts and prayers go out to her family and everyone whose life she has touched especially her chapter.  She has been such an inspiration to us all and showed us all that age is nothing but a number when you are determined to live a full and meaningful life.

Blessings on Margaret in a wonderful resting place.  

 

 

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Subject: [Colorado-Talk] Passing of a tremendous leader

 

It is with great sadness that I inform everyone of the passing of Ms. Margaret Williams yesterday, our president, and matriarch of the Grand Valley Chapter. I remember first meeting Ms. Margaret at the BELL Academy we held in Grand Junction. Margaret was so passionate about so many things and her determination to live the life she wanted will always be etched in my memory. In her 90's she participated in the One Touch self-defense class, rafted the mighty Colorado River not once but twice and was always so eager and energetic at all of our events. She shared with me that her greatest desire was to keep the NFB of Colorado Grand Valley Chapter going because it did so very much for her. From seniors in charge to our bake sales to the farmers market on the main street I know I will miss her stories of yesteryear. On our way back from last year's leadership retreat she gleamed talking about riding in a ship to go overseas with her husband and the American muscle car, they zoomed around Europe in, often to the dismay of the Germans with its loud engine.

 

Our chapter is putting a small get together to share in our memories and I will keep the group posted if you are interested in attending. Margaret was loved by so many in this community and beyond that, there will be stories to talk of for years to come and I am truly honored to have known her and served with her on the Board. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers there are plans for a memorial on March 26th which would have been her 95th birthday. I will always remember one thing she told me, there is never a good excuse to not do the next right thing. She loved the NFB, the NFB of Colorado and all of you. She will be greatly missed and I rejoice in my time to get to know her.

 

Sincerely,

 

Rob Harris

Treasurer

NFBCO Grand Valley Chapter


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