One of our fellow Galaxie fans has passed

As bad as I hate to be the bearer of sad news I thought that I should inform everyone that Jan aka Tbirdchic has passed away. I don't know the details of it all yet. Only that she wasn't feeling well when she got up yesterday and went back to bed and just never got up again. I will let you all know as I learn more info.

Happy motoring where ever you may be Jan.


Deb

My sympathy to everyone here, and her family...always enjoyed her stories and her impeccable knowledge of racing history...she will sure be missed in here

I don't know how big that brain of hers was but it must of went clear to her toes! I couldn't remember a fraction of what she even told me not alone what all she still had stored away in that head of hers. I will sure miss her!

Hate to hear that. My prayers for her family and friends.

Originally Posted by ShotRod64

As bad as I hate to be the bearer of sad news I thought that I should inform everyone that Jan aka Tbirdchic has passed away. I don't know the details of it all yet. Only that she wasn't feeling well when she got up yesterday and went back to bed and just never got up again. I will let you all know as I learn more info.
Happy motoring where ever you may be Jan.
Deb

Hey mon Deb,
No illness? No warning signs? Just didn't feel well, went back to bed and passed away? What was her age? I'm sorry to hear this. One just never knows.
JC

Originally Posted by JCAllison

Hey mon Deb,
No illness? No warning signs? Just didn't feel well, went back to bed and passed away? What was her age? I'm sorry to hear this. One just never knows.
JC

She was 57. No signs of anything, her usual routine. I even asked about maybe some kind of symptoms that she just passed off as doing too much in the garage the day before or something but nothing. Her dad had an (now you can correct the spelling JC) ebalism in his 50s and guess her mom had brain surgery and died at a fairly young age also. One never knows when our number will be up.

I had said in the 'garage" that maybe the man upstairs told her he had that fastest little ford dirt tracker there was and needed a driver so she took off. I'll miss her a lot and miss our gab fests on the phone every other week or so. When we lived in CA I called her every single weekend almost along with a friend of hers there in OH. Now its every other week or when ever one of us will call the other and Jans name always came up wondering on or the other had talked to Jan recently.

I'll have to get her for this when it's my time!

Deb

Thoughts and prayers for her family and everyone that knew her.

Enjoy your life and all the people that touch it. At some point we all have to leave this place and I for one would hate to feel that I forgot to tell someone I loved them or that their friendship meant alot to me.

PS: You guys all are great and although I haven't met any of you face to face I thoroughly enjoy e-chating with you all.

Originally Posted by ShotRod64

She was 57. No signs of anything, her usual routine. I even asked about maybe some kind of symptoms that she just passed off as doing too much in the garage the day before or something but nothing.

Hey mon Deb,
In this day and age, 57 is middle age. You mentioned that she was receiving disability. What was THAT for?

Her dad had an embolism in his 50s and guess her mom had brain surgery and died at a fairly young age also.

An embolism is a blockage of some sort (sometimes an air bubble) in the blood stream.

One never knows when our number will be up.

To just go gently in one's sleep is probably the best for which one can hope.

As you may or may not remember, I was told on December 1, 1998: "You had better get your affairs in order, for you have only about five months to live.". This coming December, it will have been a decade ago.

When I didn't die in five months, one of the MDeities (medical personnel) remarked "Apparently you aren't finished here yet!".

So I came home and made a list of all the things that I needed to do. At the rate at which I'm getting them done, if I can't go till I'm finished, I may live forever.

Tbirdchick may just have been finished here, and it was time to move on to a new assignment.

The best plan is to live well.

JC

She had a list a million miles long but guess it wasn't the right version of the list she thought she was working on.

Just talked earlier with a real good friend of hers that had stopped by and visited when I was living in CA. Both of us said it was sure hard to not pick up the phone and call the ol red head. He said he almost called Jan to tell her about Jan!

We both did a lot of that, call each other just to compare fart smells, not litterally but something just as important. ROFL

For those who don't visit the "Garage" area of the forum, I will be sending a card in about a week. Deadhorse, I believe it was, suggested sending it and listing the names of people that wanted to be named with thier nicname used here and real name. I have also added location if it wasn't listed and I knew it.

If anyone here that hasn't seen the garage post, you can PM me or how ever you'd like to do it and give your name if you want to be added.

I also set up a paypal account to donate funds, if able, to help out with the expenses as jan had no kind of insurance or anything.

Oh and JC to answer your question, the disability at least partially had to do with a car accident and back injury. I'm not sure if that was the only thing but believe that was the reason.

Deb



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