Josepha Sherman z"l
Came up from dinner and saw an e-mail on the BSFS list linking to the announcement on Making Light that author/editor/folklorist/Compton Crook winner Josepha Sherman passed away last night. According to an SFF-Net thread linked in the comments, she had come down with sudden and severe early-onset Alzheimer's sometime last year
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As I learned when dealing with my Mom's AD: In general, the earlier it hits, the faster it develops.
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I recently made a contribution to the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation in memory of persis's mother; perhaps it can be considered, retroactively, partially in memory of Josepha.
She was one of my favorite panelists at SF cons.
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I miss her too. She was part of the vibrant Malibu Dinner mailing list and meet-up for years and that's how I came to know her. I had news of her severe illness a little over a year ago when someone was looking for her contact information, but it's still a blow.
Oddly, I wound up taking Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts out of the library in 1997 or so before I knew any of these people, and then got it assigned to me circa 2005 when I was a volunteer at Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic where Josepha was also volunteering and reread it and discovered that I knew all the people in the book with a few exceptions.
She was a fun and fascinating person, and the world is poorer without her.
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