{"id":134822,"date":"2026-06-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=134822"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:15:19","slug":"saturday-night-bernard-and-gina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2026\/06\/13\/saturday-night-bernard-and-gina\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – Bernard and Gina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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at 9am I arrived at the Saint Catherine of Siena Church in Shelburne for the funeral service for my friend Bernard\u2026 He was an amazing guy. I respected hi so much \u2026 A professional musician who got a full ride at Julliard, a commercial airline pilot who then went back and got a PhD and a field he invented, which is pilot psychology. He was an amazing bicyclist and artist\u2026 when he left beta a few weeks later, he developed pancreatic cancer and he’s had a really amazing year of being with his family, riding bikes, etc., until it all caught up with him. A good friend rebar\/Aaron has been with Bernard and his family all through the way I have so much respect for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Immediately after Bernard’s mass, I drove back to Richmond to the congregational church for the memorial service for a good friend Gina\u2026 Gina was a funny and fun lady\u2026 She was always smiling cracking jokes laughing\u2026 And this spirit of her memorial service was that. There were some great stories told and the mood was both sad and joyful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gina had requested that everyone wear flowery clothes and that they would have a garden party after the memorial service. We all were there in our flowery finest. It was great seeing some of our old friends. Here’s Ralf who is getting married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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lots of yummy food downstairs.. then over to the haddocks for the garden party.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I dont think I took any pictures att the garden party.. it was sweet and upbeat\u00a0

Just like Gina wanted it to be

rest in peace my friends..\u00a0
you are both incredible people!<\/p>\n

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nite all. nite sam
-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

at 9am I arrived at the Saint Catherine of Siena Church in Shelburne for the funeral service for my friend Bernard\u2026 He was an amazing guy. I respected hi so much \u2026 A professional musician who got a full ride at Julliard, a commercial airline pilot who then went back and got a PhD and … Continue reading Saturday night – Bernard and Gina<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134882,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134822\/revisions\/134882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}