[Md-sligo] Sad news

[Brown, Debbie]

Some of you may know Jeanie Dunnington, who has served on the Montgomery County Disability Resource Center Library Advisory Committee for many years.  She developed cancer in October and passed away this week.  This is information about her funeral.  She was not a member of our organization, but she spent a lot of time volunteering for the library.



From: Gilman, Francie [mailto:Francie.Gilman at montgomerycountymd.gov]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 1:47 PM
To: ccrawford at RCN.com; Cindy LaBon; Brown, Debbie
Subject: FW: Jeanie Dunnington -- wake and funeral information

Hello Debbie, Cindy and Charlie,

This is such a sad request to have to make: would you please send this information to your members and lists for people who may want to attend Jeanie's wake or funeral. I'm also sending it out but you have a deeper reach into the blind and low vision community. It's possible that some people have not heard that she died, so this may come as a shock. Below the announcement is an email sent by Jeanie's sister Betty on the night of her death that is both informative and deeply moving.
Thank you very much.
Francie

The notice in the Washington Post with wake and funeral information, from: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=jean-m-dunnington&pid=169548845&fhid=6151#sthash.t2BGMKt8.dpuf

JEAN MARIE DUNNINGTON (Age 63)

On Wednesday, February 5, 2014, of Silver Spring, MD. Amazing and beloved sister of Frances "Betty" Thompson. Her loss is mourned by Betty's husband, Donald "Andy" Thompson, their children, Elizabeth and Greg Thompson, their families, her aunts and cousins, and many friends from church, libraries, organizations of people with disabilities, science fiction groups, book groups, and more. Relatives and friends may call at Collins Funeral Home, 500 University Boulevard West, Silver Spring, MD, (Valet Parking), Sunday, February 9, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Memorial Mass will be celebrated at St. Bernadette's Church, 72 University Blvd. East, Silver Spring, MD, on Monday, February 10, at 10:30 a.m. Interment St. John's Cemetery at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to support disability-related library services through Friends of the Library Montgomery County, 21 Maryland Ave, Suite 310, Rockville, MD 20850, and made payable to FOLMC DRC Account, in memory of Jeanie Dunnington.


Below is the email sent by Betty Thompson, Jeanie's sister, who lives in Takoma Park, on the day Jeanie died. Jeanie's family would love to hear your thoughts and memories of Jeanie: bdthompson01 at yahoo.com. Or you can use the guestbook in the Legacy link above.

Dear friends,

I'd call each of you if I could, and if most of you weren't asleep already.

Jeanie died today, in peace and without pain, at
Sibley hospital in DC. Andy and I, our children Beth and Greg, and her dear friend Jean Barile were with her, as well as a mutual friend of Jeanie's and Jean's.

Since the oncologist found that
the rare cancer had recurred aggressively on January 7, the cancer has
caused new challenges almost every day. Jeanie faced them and dealt with
them with her usual intelligence, courage, and general optimism. The
past couple of days have been different. She grew extremely weak from
lack of nutrition; for two weeks, there has been too much cancer
pressing on everything in her abdomen, leaving no room for her to take in more than a few ounces of liquid. Yet even yesterday, she was still
fully engaged with life as she listened to All Things Considered and dictated to me a
proposal related to county library services for people with
disabilities, in preparation for a conference call with county officials
that had been planned for this afternoon. Even yesterday, both of her
doctors were cautiously hopeful as she had a procedure to begin intravenous
feeding. But her witty comments had mostly stopped. I think she knew what her
body was doing, and decided it was time to slip away and join Mom,
Daddy, and Teresa in joy.

Jeanie Dunnington is a rare and magnificent and delightful treasure. Always will be.

Her
funeral is likely to be at St. Bernadette church in Silver Spring at
10:30 a.m. on Monday, and her wake at Collins funeral home in Silver
Spring on Sunday 2-4 and 7-9. I'll confirm this as I know more. Instead
of flowers (and maybe even instead of mass cards; I feel sure that God was ready for her with open arms), I plan to set up a way for donations to go to disability
resources at the libraries in which she found so much pleasure, and to
which she gave so much of her
life.

If any of you have a word or two about Jeanie to share, I'd welcome them.

Love,
Betty






















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