Thank you Patty.............. for the thought jet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patti McDonald" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 10:46 AM Subject: [WVMINERA] Off Subject / Sympathy Regards > Please keep our fellow MinCo researcher Joyce Thomas and her family in your > thoughts and prayers. > Her daughter Patty, 21, passed away Wednesday, and her services will be > held today. Patty died after a long and courageous battle > with Niemann-Pick Disease. > Her sister, Christine, died from this same rare disease in 1998. > > I met Joyce and Patty at the hospital, and learned Joyce had begun her > genealogy research in regards to her daughters' Niemann-Pick Disease. > > I've posted Patty's obituary on the Mineral County USGenWeb Page, which > gives an address to anyone wishing to donate to the Niemann-Pick Disease > Foundation in Patty's name: > National Niemann-Pick Disease Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 791, Phoenix, > Ariz., 85001, in the memory of Patricia Elaine Thomas. > > Patti > >