A Place to Share Thoughts & Memories of Rose Ellen Alexander
I hope this will be a place for friends of Rose to share thoughts, stay connected and remember an amazing woman.
posted by kin of konrad @ 1:21 PM
Sunday, October 16, 2005
I hope this will be a place for friends of Rose to share thoughts, stay connected and remember an amazing woman.
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I’ve written pages, but keep getting lost in the editing. So much to say, So much love for Rose.
I’d like to thank Brian for creating this blog. He was the first person I ever met through Rose.
It went something like this…
In June 1982 I turned 16, hi-jacked my dad’s recently wrecked but entirely driveable 1974 Dodge Colt and got the hell out of Issaquah. Straight to G Street.
Upon arriving at G, Rose and Gavin sold me on the idea that I should go wake up her housemate.
He was an impossible, cranky bastard. Less than pleased to have a strange kid telling him to wake up.
Brian, for a long time after that, I thought you were the coolest MF on the planet. Thanks again for setting up this blog. I know Rose loved you very much.
A truly extraordinary soul, the friendship of our Rose has affected my life immeasurably.
We are so very lucky to have known her.
I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of Aunt Roses friends for being at her celebration of life and all the wonderful things you had to say. I spent a great deal of my life with many of you and will never forget those times. Please know that Rose loved you all very much and in many ways you were all there for her more so than we could be. I think my life has changed and everything I am today is because of her. I love her so very much and if any of you would like to stay in contact I can be reached @ (501) 332-4080 or 24138 Hwy 51 Malvern, Ar 72104.
Please help me to carry on her laugh and love. Brian thank you for so very much and for this website I will never forget all of you!! Love you all Dani
It is really great that you did this for Rosie. She is such a wonderfully warm and amazing person. I have been fortunate enough to know Rose my entire life and although I know life will go on a big part of my heart will be forever with her. I know she touched everyone who met her because she was so kind and caring. It never mattered who a person was or what they did Rose always remembered we were people and never judged. The world will be a sadder place without you and I can't imagine not trying to pick up the phone to talk to you.
I am writing today to say how very much I feel empty and how a light in my life has burned out and I can't seem to find it. I am trying each and everyday and they say time heals all wounds well guess what that is false. I miss her smile I miss her laugh but most of all I miss the early morning (I love you) phone calls. I wish that I could reverse time and just be there for every last second. I am scared that no one out there will ever understand me the way she did. If she is watching over then I hope she has peace that she deserves and I hope Uncle Ray is holding her hand.
Aunt Rose I love you so much and I still dont understand I guess that makes me a little selfish and for that I am sorry but life without you is so hard and I just wasnt ready to not have you. Missing you for the rest of my life.
Dani
I feel for you Dani because I still feel the same. I want to pick up the phone and call and keep expecting to hear from her. I cannot imagine not talking to her ever again. Whenever there is a Charlie Brown holiday special on I expect her to call and remind me and I always feel that she is near when I hear a David Bowie song. When I realize that I will not see her again it is like someone knocked the breath out of me. I do however have many a conversation with her both in my head and out loud. I feel so terrible that things didn't work out differently and she would give anything to have her with us.
Take care, you are in my thoughts. Love Tracy
I'm with you Tracy and Dani.
This week I've been organizing and cleaning up boxes of memorabelia, photos, letters and cards. Time after time I find something meaningful from Rose. A photo, a card, a note.
I hope that at some time and place in the near future we have a gathering of some kind to celebrate all that Rose contributed to our lives.
Brian M
...I'm realizing there's no way to summarize this woman. I don't want to sound cheesy or gushing, I just want to tell the truth. If you never knew her, you missed out, especially if you didn't want to know her because of her style of dress. She was a joy to talk to. She could listen like no one else. And Rose was an even greater joy to listen to as she recounted stories from her life.
As a former professional stand-up comic myself, I know a thing or two about comedy. I've studied all the greats. Rose was the funniest person I ever knew. It's not an exaggeration to say that Rose was funnier than Lily Tomlin and Lucille Ball combined...
Read The Story of Rose and the Octaman - and one special guitar
I'm grinning - because Lily Tomlin and Lucille Ball are two of my favorites. No surprise someone would think of them and Rose in the same league.
She and I kept each other laughing about the weirdness of life.
- Brian
All I can say is thank you Dani for bringing in to your family when I was 12 and introducing me to your Aunt Rose...oh the fun we had growing up with her in my life.
I can't even for a minute imagine what my life would have been like without the music scene and the job at Tower Records. Wasn't she the first person that ever let us skip school to meet rock bands and get their autograph??? Ooops... I mean Rose would never for a minute allow our love of music to come before our all important education. Thank god nobody has ever asked for my high school diploma!!!
Love,
Beverly
As 2 long years have passed you are still the smile I see when the autumn wind blows. I spend everyday with a thought of you. I still find myself waiting on your card and calls. Time is starting to heal that wound. I miss you Aunt Budly and that hasn't changed. Keeping you close to my heart and soul. Some of the best parts of me are from you! People that see your picture will often ask if that is my mother? I am proud to say yes... Love you each and every day missing you always.
Love Dani
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