We just learned that an old friend of ours, Bridgette
Scarborough, died Monday, December the 7th.
Bridgette and Anna worked together for the DOD for many
years. She, her husband Bill, Anna, and
I went to Kennesaw College together in the evenings. Bill and I would cut up and stir things up
while Anna and Bridgette took all the notes in our classes.
Bridgette was a native of Deggendorf, Germany, in about
1940. She was less than a year older
than I. She worked in a government
exchange in Europe and that is where she met Bill.
Bridgette was a very smart non-nonsense kind of person and
there is nothing she would not do for a friend.
After Bill died we kept our friendship with her active, taking her to concerts and museums
and other interesting places. She also
volunteered for a lot of organizations after she retired. I think she knew the Shakespeare plays by
heart and had a group of friends that would frequent Shakespeare's works in
Atlanta.
About five years ago it was evident to her doctor that she
was coming down with dementia or Alzheimer's disease and had her committed.
When it first happened she could not understand why she was
put into a watchful ward and begged us to help her escape. Over the years she became less demanding and more independent
on the nurses.
Did I mentioned she was a mathematical genius? Of course she did her math calculations in the
Deutsch language.
We visited her on her as often as we could.
The last time we visited her I think she was losing her gasp
of the English language. No matter what
we said to her, her response was "OK."
So sad.
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