I am getting so many emails asking about the service for my brother. My plan is to speak a little and then just allow anyone who cares to, to share their memories of Robert. Here are the details:
My brother's memorial service will be on Sunday
March 9 at 10:30 a.m. at the Beth Abraham Memorial Chapel 199 Bleecker Street between 6th Ave and Macdougal Street (Bob would be proud of me for remembering the "c" in Bleecker!)
Their phone # is 212-614-2300 if you need to ask them for directions.
In place of flowers, if you wish, please make a donation to
http://www.jazzfoundation.org/
Thank you everyone for your kind (and often amusing) words!
Jeanne
I'm loving everyone's stories. Julie's (#132) reminds me of one of my favorite Robert comments. After much hesitation, he had accepted a very lucrative job with a TV network, doing copy-editing, complete with benefits etc. (I think my father pressured him into it, because he was always concerned about my brother having health care coverage). After 3 days, I phoned him to see how the job was going. His response: "Ah, I don't know about this 9:00 to 5:00 thing........" The next day he quit. He also planned to write an essay titled "The Tyranny of the Larks" (Larks being the opposite of night owls). Poor Robert really couldn't keep to a "normal" schedule, could he!
Jeanne here. I will definitely post the information on the memorial service here - and please don't worry about "burdening me with emails" because I really feel a need to communicate with Bob's friends right now - it's a way of trying to keep him alive for me. I love reading the stories about him, and the comments. Believe me, as his sister, no one knew his quirks better than I did, and Bob (as I still call him even though he changed to Robert years ago!) could be one of the most exasperating people on earth! But he was also the kindest, most compassionate, sensitive, intelligent, and caring person I ever knew. It's hard for me to imagine anyone having a better brother than he was and I just don't know what I'm going to do without him. I welcome all communications and remembrances and hope people will share their stories and memories of Bob with me....there are just so many of them!
Thank you Theresa, for letting me know about this site. I am Robert's sister, Jeanne, and I loved him very very much. He was the best brother a girl could ever have. I am utterly devastated - he was the only family I had left, and we were very close. I find it very comforting to read folk's remembrances of him, and if anyone would like to contact me, I do plan to fly to New York and hold a memorial service for him. Please send me your email address so that I can let you know the details as soon as I can pull myself together enough to make them. My email address is jeannelegault@aol.com
Thank you so much for your kind words...
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