[Chat] Obituary-"Memorials in her honor can be made to anyorganization working for the removal of President Bush."
jdy
jberlin at bcpl.net
Thu Aug 28 21:08:27 EDT 2003
thank u crystal. couldn't agree more with 'eugene victor debs'
judy
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Subject: [Chat] Obituary-"Memorials in her honor can be made to
anyorganization working for the removal of President Bush."
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> Obituary Backs `Removal Of Bush'
> Woman `Thought He Was A Liar'
> By Lee Sensenbrenner
> The Capital Times
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> Thursday 22 August 2003
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> When Sally Baron's family wrote her obituary,
> they described a northern Wisconsin woman who raised
> six children and took care of her husband after he was
> crushed in a mining accident.
>
> She had moved to Stoughton seven years ago to be
> closer to her children and was 71 when she died Monday
> after struggling to recuperate from heart surgery. Her
> family had come to the question of what might be a
> fitting tribute to her.
>
> "My uncle asked if there was a cause," her
> youngest son, Pete Baron, said.
>
> Almost in unison, what her children decided to
> include in the obituary was this: "Memorials in her
> honor can be made to any organization working for the
> removal of President Bush."
>
> "She thought he was a liar," Baron's daughter,
> Maureen Bettilyon, said. "I think his personality,
> just standing there with that smirk on his face, and
> acting like he's this holy Christian, that's what
> really got her."
>
> Bettilyon, who lives in Stoughton, said her
> mother didn't trifle with petty neighborhood squabbles
> but was attuned to significant policy-making at all
> levels.
>
> "She'd always watch CNN, C-SPAN, and you know,
> she'd just swear at the TV and say `Oh, Bush, he's
> such a whistle ass!' She'd just get so mad," Bettilyon
> said.
>
> Sally Baron was born in Hurley, Wis., and spent
> nearly her entire life in the timber and mining
> country of Iron County. She worked as a factory
> assembly worker, a waitress, a cook and a dietician,
> while her husband, James "Slugger" Baron, worked deep
> in the iron mines.
>
> Following a promotion, Slugger worked briefly
> above ground on mining machinery but in 1969 was
> crushed under two tons of equipment. His back and all
> his ribs were broken and a leg was snapped at the
> shin.
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> "We went to school and they told us our dad was
> dead because the accident was so bad," Bettilyon said.
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> Sally rushed to the scene and demanded that he be
> treated locally by a doctor she believed in rather
> than risk transporting him more than 100 miles to
> specialists in Duluth.
>
> Bettilyon said the decision saved her father's
> life and put him in the hands of a "really
> old-fashioned kind of common-sense doctor."
>
> Slugger convalesced and returned to work in
> carpentry, then was elected the mayor of Montreal,
> Wis., a post he held for over 20 years, nearly until
> his death seven years ago. His accomplishments
> included sinking new municipal water wells and
> establishing one of the first sewage treatment plants
> in the area.
>
> Meanwhile, their children grew up. Their oldest
> son, Jeff, died as a college student at age 21 of
> leukemia. Another son joined the Navy and the rest of
> the children graduated from Wisconsin universities.
>
> "She was the den mother. She was the 4-H leader.
> She is the lady that taught all of us how to swim, how
> to play softball, how to camp," said her son, Joe
> Baron, who owns a plumbing business in Prairie du Sac.
>
>
> "Montreal isn't a big city, but it's not that
> small, either. It was about 850 people. And my friends
> used to joke that when my mom goes to the front door
> -- when I was a kid, this is -- and yells out Jeff,
> Jim, Joe!' there was no place in Montreal that she
> couldn't be heard.
>
> "And it meant one of three things: It was either
> time to eat, it was time to do a chore, or it was time
> to get in a lineup to find out who did this atrocity
> that she perceived. Then the fury of Genghis Khan
> would come out."
>
> Joe Baron said that the day his mother died he
> spent a lot of time waiting in the lobby, and so he
> sat and looked at the paper.
>
> "I noticed that 776 years earlier to the day,
> Genghis Khan died. And we got quite a chuckle out of
> that, you know?" he laughed. "Anyhow, yeah, she was a
> great lady."
>
> "She was real tough, real strong," Bettilyon
> said. "They never sued the mining company or anything,
> and my parents were so helpful to us. We're people who
> waste money, and they never wasted money. They helped
> all of us buy houses."
>
> The decision to put the line in about Bush came
> easily, although after several family members thought
> of it, there was some "how can we really say this"
> kind of laughter. "It should be impeachment, not
> removal," Pete said, laughing. "That can mean a couple
> of things."
>
> Joe Baron has no question that his mother would
> approve.
>
> "She just didn't trust that a big corporate guy
> was going to be doing what was best for her. She just
> really didn't trust him," he said.
>
> A memorial service for Sally Baron will be held
> at Covenant Lutheran Church in Stoughton at 1 p.m.
> Friday. Graveside services in Hurley are scheduled for
> Sept. 20.
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