Author: Mary Gribble
Born: November 10, 1928
Dates: December 9, 2009
Bio: Mary has lived in CA for fifty-four years,  a reluctant transplant from San Antonio, Texas. Her web site, a labor of love, is  composed of excellent poets. The site has enjoyed an unbroken presence for ten years, with no commerrcial affiliations.  Mary's home-based family members will be greatly missed by family,  friends and colleagues.  Her daughter, Von Purdy, died in 2007  of incurable appendix cancer.  Her spouse of thirty-nine years,  an attentive and loving husband and step-father to Allan and Von, died in the summer of 2009,  after a  courageous battle with pneumomia. following an emergency operation for perionitis.     Four of the poets featured on the website and the beloved spouse of scientist/poet, Dr.William J. Middleton, Mildred "Millie" Middleton, have died,  Mrs. Middleton on November 10,  2009,  leaving a community of artists and writers with the  awareness that these gifted, producing members of society are  one-of-a-kind  persons and  irreplaceable.  These artists and thinkers made indelible marks on many hearts, whether knowing them as vis a vis persons or through  pen reflections on paper or brush perceptons on canvas.