Okay, make that ONE degree.
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captainsblogThe names are starting to come out.
Of course I know one of them.
Susan Wehle was Cantor at the temple I pass at least twice a day on my way to work, Wegmans and whatnot.
She was brilliant, talented, funny and incredibly tolerant of the young teenage Methodists who visited one of her bar/bat mitzvahs every year.
The Buffalo News has yet to publish anything other than her name. The Rochester D&C has this:
Hours before she boarded doomed Continental Flight 3407 for Buffalo, Susan Wehle called the administrator at her Amherst temple to say she had had a wonderful Caribbean vacation abroad and, “I’m coming home energized, said Temple Beth Am President David Bergash.
The 55-year-old Wehle, a mother of two and longtime cantor at the temple, had spent 11 days in Costa Rica in an effort to escape the biting Buffalo winter, Bergash said.
As cantor for 11 years, Wehle was a fixture in the temple. She orchestrated the musical portions of its services and was active in its religious school, where she taught music and the tenets of Judaism, Bergash said.
“We thought of her as one of our clergy,” Bergash said. “She helped run the services, organize hospital visits, bar mitzvahs, bat mizvahs. You name it. She did it.”
Bergash said the temple administrator, Rick Ellis, was to pick Wehle up from the airport and that she had called him to say that her flight would be delayed.
“She was very close to all the congregants,” Bergash said. “She was a people person.”
Wehle is survived by two sons, Jonah and Jacob, Bergash said.
She is also survived by her close friend, the Rev. Gail Lewis, who is currently recuperating in the Caribbean. And surely, suddenly, in need of more.
Of course I know one of them.
Susan Wehle was Cantor at the temple I pass at least twice a day on my way to work, Wegmans and whatnot.
She was brilliant, talented, funny and incredibly tolerant of the young teenage Methodists who visited one of her bar/bat mitzvahs every year.
The Buffalo News has yet to publish anything other than her name. The Rochester D&C has this:
Hours before she boarded doomed Continental Flight 3407 for Buffalo, Susan Wehle called the administrator at her Amherst temple to say she had had a wonderful Caribbean vacation abroad and, “I’m coming home energized, said Temple Beth Am President David Bergash.
The 55-year-old Wehle, a mother of two and longtime cantor at the temple, had spent 11 days in Costa Rica in an effort to escape the biting Buffalo winter, Bergash said.
As cantor for 11 years, Wehle was a fixture in the temple. She orchestrated the musical portions of its services and was active in its religious school, where she taught music and the tenets of Judaism, Bergash said.
“We thought of her as one of our clergy,” Bergash said. “She helped run the services, organize hospital visits, bar mitzvahs, bat mizvahs. You name it. She did it.”
Bergash said the temple administrator, Rick Ellis, was to pick Wehle up from the airport and that she had called him to say that her flight would be delayed.
“She was very close to all the congregants,” Bergash said. “She was a people person.”
Wehle is survived by two sons, Jonah and Jacob, Bergash said.
She is also survived by her close friend, the Rev. Gail Lewis, who is currently recuperating in the Caribbean. And surely, suddenly, in need of more.
Are you there, God? It's us, Buffalo.
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Date: 2009-02-13 11:03 pm (UTC)My prayers are with everyone touched by this.
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Date: 2009-02-14 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-14 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-14 07:02 am (UTC)And of course any time Buffalo makes the national news it's for something bad...
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Date: 2009-02-14 09:00 am (UTC)I've no idea why things like this happen (in a cosmic sense...the actual reason seems to be ice on the wings) I simply pray for comfort and peace for the families and friends of the victims.