[IRCA] Maria Pietsch: Wish you were able to join us!

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 05:34 PM 6/15/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Bill
>Actually Pietsch is German which was Bob's heritage. He was 2nd
>generation American.
>My given name is Marja Warger but here they call me Maria although
>it is my middle name as well. My parents immigrated when I was ten
>so I can read basic dutch, understand it and do try to write it to
>my two remaining uncles in Holland with the English Dutch dictionary
>open online. English is much easier for me and fortunately both uncles
>can read and understand English. I was pretty young so my dutch
>vocabulary isn't the greatest but I like trying when it is something
>short. Bob was one of the big boys. He and Don Kasky go back to 1961.
>I met Don and his wife Eloise when we both had our first child which
>is 29 years ago now. DXing was definitely Bob's hobby. And although
>he is gone his email is still active so it still gets posting. When I
>see Don's name or something that get's my attention I read it and
>that's how I got onto the message board. I had asked Don to notify
>everyone through the mailing list about Bob and am sure not everyone
>saw it. A number of people emailed condolences and/or sent cards. It
>was very heart warming and meant a lot to me to hear how well liked
>he was.
>
>keep in touch
>Maria (Rocklin Rocket) as Bob was known.
>
>

Maria,

Ah, now I make the connection. And so I extend my most sincere and
heartfelt condolences to you. Anyone who's a friend of Don and Eloise
is going to be sitting at the Man's (that term is Scriptural) right
hand!

Part of my genealogy says that my distant G-g-g-grandfather and G-g-g-
grandmother immigrated from Holland as Jeff and Lida Taylor (Lida, it's
said, was Taylor before marriage). I suspect they may have been Tayloe.

My maiden name is Schafer, you may say. In fact you may say anything
about me at all, ha. My mom's maiden name is Schafer, and comes from
s.w. Indiana where there was a heavy settling of German immigrants.
Heavy proportion of German family names.

Too bad you are not one of our lady radio enthusiasts, or you
could step into the club and start all over again in Bob's (and your)
name. But few women do, as I have read that the female brain does not
work well to decode voices in the presence of noise as one hears
on a radio when "DXing."

My own little bride of 34 years, a Filipina, from a different cul-
tural milieu, seems to agree with that. Sees no rationale in the
hobby, although SHE's the one who is the sports and 'rasslin'
fan in this house.

Thank you for stepping in and making it all clearer, the dynamic
of what was occurring here!

Charles


   Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
  Greenville, North Carolina 
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