Abraham's Memorial Guestbook

This is Abe's Memorial Guestbook.  As new folks visit from time to time, I've started a "Newcomers'" book.  To go there, just click on: Newcomers .

Here are the memories and thoughts Abe's family and friends have shared:

           Nilda and I are thankful for having had the opportunity to meet Abe – and you and your mother. We are thankful for his presence here – and wherever his spirit may be – for it is his peace that we seek for Vieques.

           Robert Rabin & Nilda Medina
          Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques
          Posted: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:17:57 -0400
 

          You and Jean and your brother are in my prayers.
          And Abraham is in my prayers as I celebrate his life dedicated to peace and justice and love.

          Love, Carolyn
          Ecumenical Peace Institute
          Posted: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:08:47 EST
 

          Your father and mother and your family will certainly be in out prayers!!! God grant that he go on the Sabbath!! He certainly has been a great man in both life and death and an inspiration to all of us. I wish you had the e-mail address of the security officers out at Livermore – who respected him so!!!

          Fondly, Joan and Stu MacIntyre
          Posted: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:42:12 EST
 

          I am one who has received your recent messages "second-hand," via Carolyn Scarr (and I appreciate that – no forgiveness needed – I am not slighted in the least by not being on your direct list.) And I do not consider myself a second-hand friend, for your father's presence at so many peace gatherings has been an important part of my peace movement experience, and I imagine there are ever so many whose names you do not know who feel as I do. He will continue to be a blessing to us. I lift him, and you, and your mother Jean, and all of us! – in prayer

          Shalom, Dorothy Wonder
          Posted: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:39:16 EST
 

          We greatly appreciate your message and hope that our cousin, Abe, will slip away peacefully and painlessly, if possible. Wish we could be with you.

          Our love to you all. Harold and Florence
          Posted: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 22:01:43 -0500
 

          I rec'd. your email via Carolyn Scarr. I shall always remember your father (and your mother) as such a wonderfully pleasant and quiet, but centered, "actionary" and leader in the peace and justice movement. I shall keep all of you in my prayers.

          Judi Day of Walnut Creek...formerly of Livermore
          Posted: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 22:33:59 EST
 

          1/29/00 – Sabbath Day
Grace to you, and peace!
          Thanks for keeping me in touch with Abe's journey. When I saw him on January 20, in the hospital, he was very able to talk, but not really able to hear – since he did not have his hearing aids in at the time.
          So, when I said a prayer for him, he said, "I didn't hear a word, but I got it by osmosis."
          What a wonderful elder he is for many, many of us. I love him and Jean dearly. Not just for their courage, though there is that; but for their gentle hearts and kind souls. Such strength is a rare gift for all who encounter it.

          Blessings to all, Lee Williamson
          Pastor, Wesleyan United Methodist Church
          Posted: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 08:14:40 -0800
 

          I just found out and am sorry to hear Abe is not doing will just yet. From what Florence told me all is not without hope. Know that he you and your mom have my prayers.

          Rick Friedman
          Posted: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:47:54 EST
 

Dear Daniel,
          Your message left me with continuous thoughts of my cousin Abe. I have known him probably longer than anyone else. You know, of course, he came to live with us in Newark when he was studying naturopathy in NY. Later, he managed my father's grocery store to make something of a living.
          I was so proud of his CO status during WW 11; he had shown such integrity and courage! And when Jean helped get him out of jail, we loved her forever. Altho' Uncle Charlie wasn't happy by an intermarriage, my mother adored Jean when she met her.
          Memories flood as I think of Abe and his life. He is such a remarkbable person, I do hope you will someday write a profile, a biography of this idiosyncratic Jewish boy turned spiritual man for all religions.
          In the meantime, know that our thoughts are with you with the hopes that death will come as peacefully as possible.

          My love to you all. Florence and Harold Rader
          Posted: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:29:23 -0500
 

Some time between 12:15 and 12:45 am Monday, January 31, 2000, at home in the company of his family: wife of 55 years, Jean Wiley, sons David Reuben, 54, of Augusta, Georgia and Daniel Beck, 52, Abraham peacefully took the Long Sleep at the age of 96.
     &Lindsay-Poland
Fellowship of Reconciliation Latin-American Task Force
          Posted: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:33:59 -0700

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