I just took a look at the reply to my message section and Ed's name all over.
Very sad indeed, may God bless his soul.

Mo

>Hi Everyone,
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>My name is kate Rauh Bland and I am Ed's youngest sibling and only sister.
>I have received a number of very kind and thoughtful emails from you in the past day and I want to let each of you know just how much that has meant to me and how much it will mean to my Mom.
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>Ed was a very private person and as an adult formed his own special family with those in the computing world he felt so comfortable with. There are a number of years difference in our ages and by the time I was in a position to really appreciate all the brillance my eldest brother held he was already off making his mark in the world (and still and would always think of me as his pesty tattle-tale little sister).
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>I wish I could say I knew him anywhere close to as well as many of you did - I was only able to glance from a distance and admire his intelligence and fortitude towards life.
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>I cannot begin to tell each of you just how much your emails and memories and nice stories have touched me - touched my heart - and I am printing all of them so that I can give them to my mother in a memory book - So she can appreciate the lasting memories and impressions he left on so many people.
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>The memorial service will be private and we are asking that people who wish to remember Ed do so in their own heart first. If you would like to do something in his memory you can make a donation, in his name to the American Heart Association in Stamford, CT where he was born and raised and where my Mom still resides.
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>Again, thanks to each of you for tkaing the time to write and remember my brother - as you have helped create some really good memories I can pass onto my Mom.
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>Kate