<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sharon, Thank you for passing this news along. Linda, thank you for leaving us with those sweet memories of Stella. I so enjoyed her when I could come to hand stitching. And I will think of her, esp when hand stitching. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Marcia</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my U.S.Cellular© Smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Sharon Lau via Oceanwavequilters <oceanwavequilters@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Date: 2/17/25 2:19 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: OWQ Listserv <oceanwavequilters@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Oceanwavequilters] Sad News about One of Our Long-time Members </div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">Linda Walzer has asked me to send this on to you all:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lato 2", sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">Dear Guild Members,</span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lato 2", sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">It is with a heavy heart that I write to you</span></span><span><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font"> </span></span></span></span><span class="zm_inLnk" data-value="2025-02-17 13:00:00" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-haspopup="true" aria-label="Add a task, event, or reminder for today" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(85, 85, 85); cursor: pointer; line-height: 1; transition: 0.3s; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lato 2", sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">today</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lato 2", sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">. Our friend and fellow Guild member, Stella Regalia, died last night at her home in Windsor. She had been struggling with health issues and coping with the recent death of her son Michael. After repeated stints in the hospital her heart gave out.</span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lato 2", sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">Stella was the featured artist at the 2017 Fort Bragg Quilt Show. She made colorful bright quilts (often very large!) with red being her favorite color. She texted me about her current project, an Exploding Pineapple quilt with a Halloween theme, yesterday afternoon. We commiserated about seam rippers and the new ways they teach us to swear.</span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lato 2", sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">Please take some sewing stitches and think of her.</span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lato 2", sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">Sorrowfully,</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lato 2", sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">Linda Walzer</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lato 2", sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="font-size: 16px" class="size"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font">Sent from my iPhone</span></span></span><br></div></div><br></body></html>