Post #281199 by ikitnrev on Fri, Jan 26, 2007 2:12 PM

I came across a good appreciation, from the Bay weekly newspaper.

Included is this quote ...

“She did everything she wanted, several times over”
Vera's stepson Lee Freeman

and this excerpt ...

When, over the years, the service was slow, the food less than scrumptious, the set tarnished at the edges, Vera persevered and her legend added depth and dimension. How long, we wondered, could she last? What would become of her, and her kingdom without her?

For we had glimpsed, behind the glamour girl, the woman who got past losses as real as yours or mine by her sheer determination to live the life she liked.

The full article can be read here
http://www.bayweekly.com/year07/issuexv4/reflectxv4.html

Vern