Saturday, May 19, 2018
Dear Victoria, Dominck Amy Michael Christina and Ian and friends and family,
I am so sorry for your loss.
Yes, he touched so many lives and I have never forgotten him or his mom. I have been looking for Billy for decades. His mother Rose is someone I think of fondly and remember her gracious presence, even as I was a child. I hardly knew them, like all of you, but Billy and Rose have never left my heart. How can that be? But it be. This is a very special way of having influenced those whose hearts and minds, you touch over your lifetime. Be it a stranger on the street or a special friend, or teacher or the postman.
I met Rose when I was an infant being strolled down the street in a baby carriage. She told me she instantly took a liking to me. She was the God Mother? or whatever it is when you get confirmed, of my sister Lynn, who took her name as part of confirmation. Lynn Ann Rose and she used those initials to have the nickname LARK.
Occasionally I would go and stay a few nights with his family in Brooklyn. My sister Lynn and I were childhood friends with Billy and Rose would bring him to visit us in Staten Island. Billy once arranged for my sister and I to meet at the Electric Circus in the Village, a live music club, Chambers Brothers playing that night. People on tightropes, strobe lights. My father dropped us off to stay only one hour. He told us he would be wearing a green army jacket and sunglasses. Everyone was wearing the same thing. We could not find him. We walked out 3 hours later. oops I have no idea why tonight at 2:30 am mountain time, I suddenly thought of him and was determined I would find him. This is too sad. I would have like to know him as an adult. He seems to have had an extraordinary life.
I have searched over the many years. People like Billy and Rose, are hard to forget. I am the same age as him. I am devastated to find that he is gone. I lost my sister Lynn when she was 34 and my other 2 siblings at an early age. Life is hard and yet the joy that people like Billy and Rose brought to many, make it so worth it. I wish Billy peace and joy in this, the next step in his journey through the cosmos, and his family and friends as well. And his best friends his dogs. I would like to talk sometime, when anyone in the family would care to contact me I don't use Krakower name I put it for reference because that was my maiden name. My e mail is imbluesage at g mail in Santa Fe NM. 505-231-6713. . With loving prayers for all of you in this time of what is great sorrow. There are no coincidences. Peace and Light, Christine
