To all my friends and fans,

A week to the day after my father, Bucky, passed at 94, my mother, Ruth, passed away.  I am certain Bucky called for her.  She was the best Mommy and held together the fort of 4 headstrong kids and a man with a passion for the guitar that was unending.

She attended the little league games, drove us all to lessons, attended concerts, recitals and prepared meals that we still talk about.

She raised us to be polite, to dress well and could not have been more supportive of our desires.

She loved music. I remember a van ride across Florida with a Music of Your Life station playing and she named every singer. She loved Dick Haymes’s record of The More I See You. She had two autographed pictures from Frank Sinatra and even got to kiss him once!

She was a Jersey Girl before the term was fashionable. She loved her hometown of Waldwick and sometimes after meals at The Cathay restaurant on Franklin Turnpike, she would drive around and show us where she grew up.

She loved her parents and sister and brother.

She was one of a kind, elegant, gorgeous and fun.