So very sorry for the loss of your sister, aunt, cousin, or friend.
I remember Ellen with great fondness. We heard from her almost every Christmas after graduation from UVA, and hers was the first Christmas letter or card to usually arrive right after Thanksgiving. We always enjoyed hearing about her life experiences and other things she would share.
While at UVA Ellen enjoyed walking on Sunday afternoons and evenings to Jefferson Park Baptist Church with Sandy Harvey (now Rogers) and me. We took classes in sign language taught by a gentleman from Gallaudet. At our last class, we attempted to communicate with deaf from the around the Charlottesville area.
Ellen was at the Baptist Student Union (almost directly across the street from McKim Hall with a few people praying for our country and very concerned about the loss of President Kennedy. One of the UVA "gentlemen" had a car at the the school (I think his name was Barry Bahonn). He decided to drive to DC with 2 other guys (one of them was Tay Rafter) from the BSU accompanied by Ellen, Sandy and me. When we arrived in DC the line into the capitol to visit the coffin was very, very long. It reached out the capitol door, down the stairs, around the block for maybe as much as 1/2 mile. In addition there was absolutely no where to park, so we all decided to stop for a donut and coffee and return to school in time for classes the next day. It was a very interesting trip. Not exactly fun, because we were all very sad, stunned and concerned.
