Peg Ostrander
Don
relative of Margaret
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born Jul 22, 1950Died March 3, 2021, pancreatic cancer, at home in Wausau
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20 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
2021
Jan 24
R. drives to Wausau on Tuesdays now. Don is failing; it is in the pancreas, the…
…y have known since October, and the doctors have stopped proposing things. The two of them sit in Don's garage with the big door up and a heater between them, in their coats.
A letter came this week from Danny Vue, who left Tamarack Hill in 2004 and who read every one of the Redwall books in fourth grade, in order,…
Mar 3
Carol telephoned at 5:20 this morning. Don died at ten past four, at home, in t…
…he bed in the living room, with Shirley and both of the children there. Five months from the day they found it.
R. took the call standing up in the kitchen in his pajamas. He said, "All right. All right, Carol." Then he fed the dog, tested his sugar, wrote the number on the calendar, and sat down at the table with h…
Mar 4
R. had his second shot this morning. I said nobody would blame him for putting…
…it off a week. He said Don would, and went.
Mine is a week from today. The funeral is Monday.
Mar 6
Don and R. as boys, which I never saw: perhaps twelve and nine, in wool caps, o…
…n the ice somewhere, each sitting on an overturned pail at his own hole. They did not look at me. I was standing behind them holding a thermos.
Don said, "He's got one," though R.'s line had not moved. I unscrewed the thermos to pour and it was full of small engine parts, clean, in oil. Nobody thought that was stran…
Mar 7
Flowers for Don's funeral
Mar 8
We buried Don today in Wausau. He was seventy, three years older than R., and h…
…e taught R. to fish, to drive and to swear, in that order.
Lisa arranged all of it, as she has arranged everything since October. Forty people were allowed in the church, in every other pew, masked, and the rest listened from their cars in the lot, with the radio tuned to a number printed in the bulletin. I did not…
Mar 9
Don.
Donald Ostrander, born July 22, 1950, died March 3, 2021, at home in Wausau. Funeral Monday, March 8; burial in Wausau beside Carl and Evelyn.
To do:
- Memorial: to the hospice that came to the house. Lisa has the name.
- Carol keeps the family Bible; ask her to enter the date.
Mar 17
Memorial in Don's name
Nov 21
The quilt from Don's shirts, for Shirley: finished. No. 46.
Eight flannel shirts, all plaid, cut into 6 1/2-inch squares. Ten squares across and twelve down, 60 x 72. Tied, not quilted, with red yarn at every corner.
Ray is driving it to Wausau on Tuesday.
2023
Mar 21
Don't make that face. I've weeded the collection, that's all.
Mar 21
Lorraine has stopped the treatment. The harder drug did nothing but make her si…
…ck, and on Friday she told the oncologist that she would like to feel like herself for whatever there is. Hospice began yesterday. There is a bed in the front room, by the window, and a nurse who comes on Mondays and Thursdays and whenever Hal calls.
I went this afternoon. She was sitting up in the bed in a cardigan…
2025
Jun 27
Grandpa, it's good. You don't have to watch me eat it.
Jul 23
Arnie has been moved from the hospital to the rehabilitation wing, still in Wau…
…sau. He will be there three weeks at the least. He can stand with a frame and two people. The speech is all there. He told R. on Monday that the food is institutional and that the fish in it has never seen a lake.
R. does not talk about it. He is quieter than after Don, if that is possible. Arnie is four years older…
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| First name | Donald |
|---|---|
| Last name | Ostrander |
| Nickname | Don |
| Date of birth | 1950-07-22 |
| Gender | Male |
| Comments | Ray's older brother. Died March 3, 2021, pancreatic cancer, at home in Wausau. Shirley is still on Thrush Street; her number is 715-555-0127. |
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q005 Have I got a number for Shirley, Don's wife? q006 How many of the people in my address book have died? q146 Who are my brothers and sisters?