Joyce and children, Timmy, Hannah, and Abigail—I am so sorry for your loss all too soon of your husband and father. 

I feel your pain so acutely having just lost the love of my life, my husband Zoran, father of our three children, on July 11, only 4 days before Mark’s passing. 

Though I feel like I’m living in a dark void of some alternate reality without my hubby now, I know the abruptness of your loss—totally being blindsided by Mark’s sudden death must be a thousand times worse. I am so very sorry.  Please know that I am here right down the road from you on Bear Mountain and am willing to walk with you, sit with you, eat a meal with you, listen to you or just observe nature with you…whatever helps you / me / us. 

I am sorry that I cannot attend the memorial service Saturday, because it’s the same day as my husband’s required Serbian Orthodox Parastos church service in NJ, but I will be at the Celebration of Mark’s Life on Sunday. 

From one recent widow to another—I wish you PEACE and Knowledge that his love for you and yours for him lives on forever. I feel we must believe this to make it bearable. LOVE CONQUERS ALL, EVEN DEATH!