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I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

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Whoa.

Cyli's calm demeanor in this nuthouse (and r.b.) was always a wonder
to me, though I never met her.

Here's to hoping the squirrels are speaking to her, and that the
willows now bend low, weeping for our loss and her moving on.

Bill

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"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.
Sincerely,
AA"
I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.
g.c.

Dear George,
I'm sorry to hear about Cyli, I never knew she was Nancy Anderson or had
cancer from reading most of her cheerful post to ROFF. My condolences to her
family and friends.
-tom

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On Jul 25, 7:32 am, George Cleveland
wrote:
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.

Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.

g.c.


Wow. That is a sad thing to hear.

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Thanks for passing this on, George. It's indeed very sad to learn of
her passing. I've found myself thinking about the choices people make
in deciding how much to share about what's going in their lives,
health-wise, and where they share it. I appreciate and respect
everyone's individual choices, but I am definitely thinking about the
fact that I didn't know anything about her situation from her posts.
I enjoyed her presence, here.

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Truly sorry to learn of Cyli's passing. I always enjoyed her
commentary.
My condolences to her family and friends.

John

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"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

i simply cannot believe this. did anyone know of her condition?

yfitons
wayno

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George Cleveland wrote in
:

I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.


Very sad. Makes one reflective of the people we've been interacting with
for a decade or so here. When Cyli was looking her maker in the eye, she
still found the time to come around and say hi.

--
Scott
Reverse name to reply

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On 25 Jul 2007 15:28:59 GMT, Scott Seidman
wrote:

George Cleveland wrote in
:

I just received this email.

SNIPPED...and if it had contained even the slightest hint indicating
it was intended to be posted to a NG, I'd have left it alone...

Very sad. Makes one reflective of the people we've been interacting with
for a decade or so here. When Cyli was looking her maker in the eye, she
still found the time to come around and say hi.

Um, well, I hate to break it to ya, Scott, but you're looking YOUR maker
in the eye...you may just be doing so from a little further away....

And according to the email, "Cyli" wanted George to know of her
situation, not the whole ****ing world...or even all of ROFF...

And so, I'll not comment on something that I may not be supposed to
know,
R

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George Cleveland typed:
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.

Nancy was always good to me here and in my private communications with her.
She was a kind, gentle, forgiving soul as evidenced by her abilty to put up
with all of our crap here. Ever the voice of reason and calm, she will be
sorely missed.

Her ROFF Bouncer jersey will be raised to the rafters and retired. May her
feet be cooled by the waters she now wades.
--
TL,
Tim
-------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.

One of the most reasoned, calm and droll voices to grace this place will be
sorely missed. As she stated in her tag line, Nancy WAS mostly
harmless.....except for her wonderful ability to deflect the rampant
misogyny that haunts this place and consequently inspire terror in its most
rabid practitioners. Her status as the only woman with a long tenure in ROFF
is a testament to her strength of character.

Like George and a few others here, I had the opportunity of meeting Nancy in
person. Clearly, she was not, and was never destined to be, a highly
successful fly fisher, but she was game and she had grace and sense enough
to enjoy the outings, the company, and even her minimal technical
accomplishments. In the time we spent together, she had trouble keeping up
on the road, as well as with the generally hectic pace of the trip we made
through Wisconsin and the U.P., but she did so with good cheer and without
complaint, the latter, in retrospect, foreshadowing what was presumably a
long and painful process of dying that she chose not to burden us with.
Maybe it was simple reticence on her part, a desire for privacy. I choose
to believe that it was an act of generosity. We could have been better
friends to her.

Wolfgang

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Wolfgang wrote:
We could have been better
friends to her.


Everything you wrote about Cyli was apt and well-said Wolfgang, but the
above resonated with me. I'll miss her writings here.

jeff

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George Cleveland wrote:
I just received this email.
snip

Sad news indeed. I'll miss her sharp wit and pithy
commentary. I'm glad I had an opportunity to share
a stream and a campfire with Cyli, she was genuine,
down-to-earth, and a chain-smoking crusty old gal.
She told me her deadbeat ex-son-in-law was named Ken
so in the interest of being friendly she'd have to
call me Forty. She'll be missed around here.

--
Ken Fortenberry

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On Jul 25, 12:54 pm, Jeff wrote:
Wolfgang wrote:
We could have been better
friends to her.

Everything you wrote about Cyli was apt and well-said Wolfgang, but the
above resonated with me. I'll miss her writings here.

I'll second that. It's also a good time to consider being better
friends to everyone.

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Though our "bouncer," Nancy was a gentle soul.
To absent comrades.
Frank Reid

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On Jul 25, 7:32 am, George Cleveland
wrote:
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.

Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.

g.c.

What terrible news. I never had the pleasure of meeting Nancy, except
through ROFF, so I really can't add to what the others have said,
except that I will miss her presence here as well.

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I regret never having fished with her. She will be missed by us and
all that knew her.

A Sad, Sad Message in my Mail
 

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

She will indeed be missed. I always enjoyed her posts here and feel blessed
that I had an opportunity to meet her and share a bottle of Jim Beam by the
campfire with her.

Bob Weinberger

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Please add my heartfelt condolences to others from ROFF and give them to her
friends and family.
We'll miss her.
John

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

A Sad, Sad Message in my Mail
 

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

My only knowledge of Cyli was through her postings here. Her words often
seemed to be the only voice of reason when ROFFians get in a nit. I am near
speechless. I will miss reading the Minnow goddess's posts.

Jeremy Moe

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"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.
I'll raise a glass to her , didn't know her apart from here and she once
commented on a fly of mine. Makes you think perhaps all those things we
should give up we should give up for her.

John

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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:26:31 -0400, "Wayne Harrison"
wrote:


"George Cleveland" wrote in message
.. .
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

i simply cannot believe this. did anyone know of her condition?

yfitons
wayno

No. It came as a complete shock to me and my wife.

g.c.

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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:51:34 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:26:31 -0400, "Wayne Harrison"
wrote:


"George Cleveland" wrote in message
. ..
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

i simply cannot believe this. did anyone know of her condition?

yfitons
wayno

No. It came as a complete shock to me and my wife.

g.c.

Did anyone know she was in a nursing home? About how old was she? I
thought she might be in her early 50s. Much too young to die.
Someone said she was a smoker. Could that have been the cause?
Really shocking.

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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:26:31 -0400, "Wayne Harrison"
wrote:


"George Cleveland" wrote in message
.. .
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

i simply cannot believe this. did anyone know of her condition?

Er, well, it's a pretty good guess that she was well aware of it...

....and on a related note, she apparently told darned few ROFFians about
it, certainly never discussed it here, and thus far, only one has
chosen to post an email notifying _him_ of the situation. And based on
that email, she didn't ask her friend to post anything here.

yfotgc...hdppewp,
R

yfitons
wayno

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wrote in message
ups.com...
Whoa.

Cyli's calm demeanor in this nuthouse (and r.b.) was always a wonder
to me, though I never met her.

Here's to hoping the squirrels are speaking to her, and that the
willows now bend low, weeping for our loss and her moving on.

Bill

I couldn't possibly have put my sentiments any better,
Bill. RIP, Cyli....you will be missed.
Tom

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"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

There is no doubt that ROFF will never be the same without Cyli. Maybe her
kind and gentle ways will have been left behind. I plan to start lookin'
myself.

Op --Good-bye Nancy Anderson. We're gonna miss you more than we know.--

Op

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I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm.

Thank you for passing this along.

RIP Cyli.

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"George Cleveland" wrote ...
Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.


Sad news indeed. Please allow me to add humble condolences to her family.
Like many above, I didn't know her, in fact I don't know if she and I ever
really "spoke" here. I did however, look forward to her posts. From reading
them, I agree with Wolfgang... she seemed a rare person...always calm and
well-reasoned.

Echoing Bill above, I too hope the squirrels are speaking to her.

Dan

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wrote in message
...
On 25 Jul 2007 15:28:59 GMT, Scott Seidman
wrote:

George Cleveland wrote in
m:

I just received this email.

SNIPPED...and if it had contained even the slightest hint indicating
it was intended to be posted to a NG, I'd have left it alone...

Very sad. Makes one reflective of the people we've been interacting with
for a decade or so here. When Cyli was looking her maker in the eye, she
still found the time to come around and say hi.

Um, well, I hate to break it to ya, Scott, but you're looking YOUR maker
in the eye...you may just be doing so from a little further away....

Deep. Way.

And according to the email, "Cyli" wanted George to know of her
situation, not the whole ****ing world...or even all of ROFF...

O.k., granted that George couldn't possibly have known Nancy as well as you
did (I mean, I've been to the man's house.....even slept there on
occasion....and despite numerous [and not entirely unprofessional] searches,
I have yet to unearth so much as a single super-secret dossier on any
ROFFian, dead or alive, past, present, or future) and yes, it is almost
certainly true that he has never audited "Googling Obscure Gun Parts 101" at
the Suthern Misisiipii Skool of Law and Soshul Siance while in a months long
drunken stupor, but have you ever stopped to wonder what life might be like
as NOT an asshole? Uh huh......food for thought, ainna?

Asshole.

And so, I'll not comment on something that I may not be supposed to
know,

Well, maybe some day......if you discover that you have something to say,
huh?

Imbecile.

Wolfgang

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Thnaks for letting us know about this George. And thanks to those of you
who shared some of your memories of her. I never met her, nor even knew
her real name. I enjoyed her posts, and will miss her.

Tim Lysyk

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In article ,
George Cleveland wrote:

I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

Indeed sad. She always added to the group

Allen

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"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

Thanks for sharing that George...she knew you would.

john

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On Jul 25, 4:32 am, George Cleveland
wrote:
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.

Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.

g.c.

A sad day. A post from Cyli always meant you were going to read
something witty, intelligent and maybe a little sarcastic. It
makes you wander what redeeming qualities roff has to be blessed with
her presence, to short though it was.

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So sorry to hear about Cyli.......Our thoughts and prays go out to
family and friends........

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BJConner wrote in news:1185659842.839085.276880
@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com:


A sad day. A post from Cyli always meant you were going to read
something witty, intelligent and maybe a little sarcastic. It
makes you wander what redeeming qualities roff has to be blessed with
her presence, to short though it was.



Coming in to this thread late but Cyli was a member of our nuthouse that
brought clear-headed thinking and wise counsel..you just knew she was a
caring and gentle soul. I read every one of her posts simply because I knew
I wouldn't be disappointed. I will miss her presence here. RIP.

Frank Sr.

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George Cleveland wrote:
I just received this email.

"Dear Mr. Cleveland,
I am a close personal friend of Nancy Anderson whom you may know as
"Cyli". I was with her today in the nursing home she is at and she
requested I contact you concerning her situation. Sadly, Nancy passed
away Tuesday evening at 10 pm. She had long been suffering with
cancer.
I was with her near the end and she was sleeping peacefully.

I found you via the posts in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.

I am sorry to bring this news. I will miss her dearly.

If I can be of service feel free to contact me at this email address.


Sincerely,
AA"

I'm speechless right now. I'll try to post more later.


g.c.

Coming onto this a bit late as well, but let me add my sentiments. I
enjoyed reading Cyli's posts. She could be a calm and steady voice in
this sometimes nuthouse. There will be a void here without her.

Russell

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She was one of the few ROFF posters with whom I've shared several private
e-mail conversations.

I will miss those, and her.