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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">Today a shining soul has left us and fluttered on to her just reward.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">She was a very hard working, loyal and helpful person.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A giving and kind soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A loving, warm and caring individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was fiercely competitive and yet truly concerned for others, be they two or four footed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was a noble friend and confidant.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">She enjoyed the SCA as her outlet, a way to be more than modern day society lets us be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was a chirurgeon, an artist and an equestrian marshal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She truly loved a challenge and this was born out by the many times that she won competitions as an Equestrian.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet nothing thrilled her more than to take someone new under her wing and help them to become all they could be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was a teacher at heart.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">She earned many awards, including, the AOA, Sable Thistle of Ansteorra, Sable Crane of Ansteorra, Sodality of the Sentinels of the Stargate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was also a Royal Lancer of Ansteorra, twice, and earned the Golden Bridle of Ansteorra and the Golden Lance of Ansteorra.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was ever busy.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">Many of you may not know what the above items are or what they meant to her or too many of us, but let it be known that it was important to her and we were all proud of her.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">She was also and wonderful mother, devoted grandmother and loving wife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She spent much of her last few weeks, making sure that there were recordings, pictures and drawings for her grandson, so he might remember her.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">She always wanted a farm and finally achieved that dream, about the same time that the nightmare began, when she found that she had cancer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She fought the battle against this internal foe, every bit as hard as she entered into every other competition or battle that she ever began.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was determined that she was going to be there for all and she wasn’t about to give up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Unfortunately, the foe she battled was too fierce and too mighty, and in the end she succumbed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her husband Charles Michael and her daughter Laura Michelle were with her when she passed on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was not alone.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">She was my best friend, my sister in everything but blood and I am not sure what I will do without her.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">Lady Lorraine Fraser, Laura Jean Betenbaugh, we will miss you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Go in peace and may the good Lord receive your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">03/15/2010 </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">Annalies Pferdehirt</FONT></P></DIV></div><br>
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