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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

"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

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.

"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