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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 10:04:30 -0400
From: Steve Muhlberger <stevem@faculty.unipissing.ca>
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Subject: [Mid] Death of Sumer Redmaen (Ardis Waters)
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It is my sad duty to relate that one of the earliest members of the SCA
has just died.

Countess Sumer Redmaene was Queen of the West with Siegfried von
Hoflichskeit in AS IV (summer of 1969) and later served as editor of
*Tournaments Illuminated.*   She was known to the rest of the world as
Ardis Waters, and was active in the SF fan community. She had a story
published in one of the first issues of *Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction
Magazine.*

Sumer/Ardis died of liver disease. According to her doctor, she was a
good candidate for a liver transplant, but because she could not
afford it and was turned down more than once for Social Security
Disability Insurance, which would have qualified her for MediCal and a
transplant, she could not get one. Only this April Social Security
finally granted her disability. (The judge is reported to have said
that she should have been granted it years ago.) Then MediCal
paperwork/red tape provided more delays. She received her MediCal
approval about two weeks before she died. 

There will be no funeral, but there will be a memorial at a later date. 
I will pass along the date and time when I hear them.

Finnvarr de Taahe

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