Category: Lyme Memorials

Christina Lambeth was born July 8, 1980 in Forsyth County, North Carolina. She was a member of Hopewell Moravian Church. Lambeth died February 10, 2000, after a long struggle Lyme disease. Below is a quilt square made for Christina by…

Richard Olney He was one of the first food writers to introduce the beauty of simple French country cooking to American readers with more than 35 books on food and wine. Born in Marathon, Iowa, Olney attended the University of…

Moonface Bear was a Golden Hill Paugussett Indian. He led a faction of that Connecticut tribe in an armed standoff with state officials in 1993, becoming for a time a symbol of American Indian defiance of authority. Bear died on…

Jenny Umpress contracted Lyme disease when she was 15 years old, and spent the remainder of her life fighting to find the strength to overcome numerous obstacles and hardships. The disease left her bedridden and in terrible pain. It also…

John Thomas Pitner, 28, Tennessee Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) – October 2, 1992 ——– – Deceased Name: JOHN THOMAS ‘TOMMY’ PITNER JOHN THOMAS ‘TOMMY’ PITNER, 28, of Knoxville, formerly of Memphis, vice president for First Tennessee Bank bond department,…