<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I'm a lurker on the Steppes list who's generally just interested in keeping up with what y'all are up to. I don't believe I've ever posted here before.<br><br>Steve O'Donnell was a coworker of mine. I had no idea he was involved in the SCA, and certainly no idea that he was involved as long and with distinction.<br><br>Steve was a humble and self effacing man, and many of us were not aware of his depths.<br><br>We were stunned by his passing.<br><br>My heart goes out to his companions in the SCA who I know are grieving just as I and many of his coworkers are grieving.<br><br>Jonathan Bell<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Crandall <crandalltwo-scalists@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Barony of Elfsea <elfsea@lists.ansteorra.org>; Kingdom of Ansteorra SCA Inc. Shire of Loch Ruadh <loch-ruadh@lists.ansteorra.org>; central@lists.ansteorra.org; steppes@lists.ansteorra.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:03:12 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Steppes] [Elfsea] Sad News<br></font><br>
Steffan of the Tall Pines 1219930925 <br>CSM 09/25/93 CRANE 09/28/91 THISTLE 09/28/93 Leatherwork THISTLE 09/29/96 Heraldry AKE 09/26/92 COMET (ELFSEA) 01/04/6 AoA 05/29/82 AoE 04/29/89 Principal <br><br>For those who do not read things Heraldic, it says he was the Principal Member of the Ant of Elfsea. <br>He was Actuarius Pursuivant in 1993 commenting on things Heraldic. <br><br># Steffan of the Tall Pines<br><br> * This name was registered in December of 1982 (via Ansteorra).<br> * The following device associated with this name was registered in December of 1982 (via Ansteorra):<br> Per chevron azure and argent, in chief a balance arm with two pans Or, in base a pine tree couped between in fess two shamrocks vert.<br><br>His name is Steve O'Donnell. <br><br>Crandall <br><br>"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are
comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong." -John Kenneth Galbraith<br><br><br>--- On Wed, 9/23/09, <a ymailto="mailto:donnelshaw@aol.com" href="mailto:donnelshaw@aol.com">donnelshaw@aol.com</a> <<a ymailto="mailto:donnelshaw@aol.com" href="mailto:donnelshaw@aol.com">donnelshaw@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> From: <a ymailto="mailto:donnelshaw@aol.com" href="mailto:donnelshaw@aol.com">donnelshaw@aol.com</a> <<a ymailto="mailto:donnelshaw@aol.com" href="mailto:donnelshaw@aol.com">donnelshaw@aol.com</a>><br>> Subject: [Elfsea] Sad News<br><br>> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 10:37 PM<br>> <br>> I just got word from Robbie that Lord Stephen of the<br>> Tall Pines passed away Monday at his home. No arrangements<br>> have been made at this time. He was a founding member of<br>> Elfsea and ran the Elfsea Tavern for years. <br>> <br>> HL Maili Donnel
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