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Mrs. Linda Weiss
Humanities, Values, Seventh Grade Assistant
Sponsor

Mr. Robert Woodrow
Mathematics, Cross Country

Death Is Not The End

On April 14, 1964, Mr. Bill Jeu de Vine moved to Florida. At first she was
came home for lunch with his family. It petrified, because she was alone with
was to be his last meal at home. Later the exception of one special person.
that evening, he collapsed from a brain Her first goal was to find a steady job.
aneurysm. After three brain opera­ In May of 1970, she was hired by Pine
tions in four days, Mr. Jeu de Vine Crest for Home Economics.
died. His wife, Mary, was three
months pregnant and had to care for The absence of a father was sometimes
the three small children, ages three, difficult for the Jeu de Vine children.
two, and one. “When he died,” On one occasion young Billy became
remarked Mrs. Jeu de Vine. “I was upset because other children had dads
able to have the attitude that, if this who worked, and he did not. Mrs. Jeu
is to be my way of life, then it is up de Vine answered by saying, “You
to the good Lord to show me how.” could say that he sells harps.”

When her fourth child was one year Somehow, Mrs. Jeu de Vine and her
old, Mrs. Jeu de Vine went back to family survived. “Death is very much a
school for a college degree. After six part of life,” she said, “Some adjust to
years of college, and two years of it better than others . . . we were able
substitute teaching in Detroit, she to survive.”

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