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 I truly appreciate everyone who's reached out to express condolences and concern for me.  I'm doing all right.  

 It's been a week of meetings, phone calls, emails, and making arrangements. 

I met with our pastor to plan the service (May 17) and met with the church women who do the luncheon. I've asked my P.E.O. and Zion Woman's Club friends to collaborate on the desserts with an emphasis on rhubarb. I will give them packages from my freezer.  

The obituary is on the funeral home website here and will be published in the ...

 Stevens died in hospice yesterday morning.

I'd been anticipating The Call.  At 4 a.m. there was a gurgling sound that seemed to come from his bathroom.  I snoozed a while longer, got up, and made coffee.  I was reading the newspaper when my phone rang at 6:45.  That was the hospice nurse with the news.  I went to the hospital right away and sat in the room with him.  The nurse came in to do paperwork and said she'd write the time of death as 6:40.  I asked if it might have been earlier and ...