Marlene Klauba
Thank you to everyone who took the time to write down their thoughts.
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---- 9/26/01 5:01:02 PM
Danielle Pickard
Marlene: you were the best friend one could possibly have. I shall miss you!
---- 9/26/01 5:16:55 PM
Voula
Pantelias Marlene, I am so very sorry you had to leave us so soon and so unexpectedly.
I will always remember you as a very kind and warm person who would look at me
with a big smile, ready to help, every time... I will miss you. Good bye my friend.
---- 9/26/01 5:17:39 PM
Florence Heady
To the family of Marlene - my prayers are with you. May God continue to comfort you.
---- 9/26/01 6:04:02 PM
Reinessa
Neuhalfen Hey Marlene : Can you see us? If you didn't know it before, it's a fact
now -- this mortal life of yours was too short, BUT WAS LIVED WELL. You touched
so many with your special light as is evidenced by the many, many sad faces in
the library this week. Thank you for so many wonderful memories. Peace to you
and your family.
---- 9/26/01 11:34:25 PM
Vlad Karpenko
Marlene: I still keep thinking you're just out of your office doing some business. Miss you.
---- 9/27/01 6:27:37 AM
Joan Crawford
Marlene, You touch my life so much, I shall miss you dearly. You were always ready to help when anyone needed it. I shall
miss your beautiful smile, your beautiful soul. One day we shall meet again. You will be missed at my party but know you will be there in spirit. Love you.
---- 9/27/01 7:08:14 AM
Brenda Simms
Marlene is one beautiful person that I will alway have a place in my heart. Never in the 10 years I have known her was she
in bad spirits. She was always a happy person no matter what was on her mine.
I'll miss you.....
---- 9/27/01 7:59:42 AM
Stu Baker
I will miss the way Marlene brightened my day no matter what was going on. One of the last times I
saw her we were both teary eyed for a colleague who was undergoing great sorrow.
Now we all shed our tears for her. I am deeply saddened by her loss.
---- 9/27/01 9:16:24 AM
Rita Djuricich
Marlene, how can I ever forget our lunch hours together. I shall miss you ALWAYS. I know you have a spot in heaven. Rita
---- 9/27/01 9:21:37 AM
Mary Bruner
Thank you for making this webpage. A great woman like Marlene deserves a great remembrance.
---- 9/27/01 9:34:25 AM
Desmond Francis
The library will not be the same without our beloved Marlene. May her soul rest in peace.
---- 9/27/01 9:52:49 AM
Shirley Bryant
Maralene was a true friend. She was always willing to do for others, but not very much for herself.
God sends only one true person like her very seldom. Thank god I got to know her.
Let there be peace in her family's heart for she does not have to suffer.
---- 9/27/01 10:14:15 AM
Devin Savage
Marlene, you were always so genuinely nice, and so friendly. I shall miss running into you in the library.
---- 9/27/01 5:05:36 PM
Melody Chen
Marlene: The presence of your lovely voice and happy countenance will continue among us in the library in perpetuty.
---- 9/27/01 5:26:42 PM
Sheila Kessler
Oh Marlene, who will make us newbies feel at home now? How we will miss you and the light of your smile. xo
---- 9/27/01 5:41:34 PM
Carole Bell
Marlene and I comiserated about being the mothers of sons. Her sons both married within months of my sons. Her granddaughter was born within weeks of my granddaughter. When my grandson was born, I teased her about catching up with me. We loved to talk about needlework. Marlene gave me a bag of wool and canvas that belonged to her Mother. I have been able to use this to make other things to share with friends. I thank her for all of her sweetness and good humor. I thank her family for not only sharing her with us, but because we all got to know so many of them through her pictures. Many, many of us have been blessed to have quilts that she made for us. I was fortunate to be able to make a very special needlepoint for her that her family will have to remember her by. I am filled with such incredible sadness at her loss. I wish I could be there with you all in this time of grief. Love, Carole
---- 9/27/01 6:19:54 PM
Vince McCoy
Marlene -- We had so many wonderful chats about growing up on the south side of Chicago. Who else knows about Ogden Park? I never managed to stump you when I'd mention someplace I used to go with my family as a kid. I'll miss your sweetness and kindness. This world has lost a gentle, loving soul but I can't wait to see one day the marvelous quilts you must be weaving now using celestrial threads.
---- 9/28/01 7:25:31 AM
Jean Alexander
It's hard to be so far away at this sad time. I'm thinking about all of you and how much you loved and depended on Marlene. She was such a luminous spirit, I can feel the glow in your tributes to her. Her spirit will always be alive in our hearts.
Jean
---- 9/28/01 7:29:40 AM
Catherine Feeney
Marlene, I will miss your lovely personality
and happy smile. You were always kind and loving.
Who will help me with Management Council notes?
Rest in peace we will all think of you often.
---- 9/28/01 7:40:36 AM
Gloria Hamilton
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies...Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Proverbs 31
Will miss your smile and kindness.
---- 9/28/01 8:48:29 AM
Claire Dougherty
Marlene, I hope you had a wonderful time at the quilting comptetition (your first!) you were telling me about last week. I will miss you. You are well loved and well remembered.
---- 9/28/01 9:04:54 AM
Jeannette Moss
Marlene, you were the brightest ray of sunshine in the library. I only wish I'd had the benefit of knowing you better. We will miss you so. Peace be with you and your family.
---- 9/28/01 12:43:23 PM
Ann Duncan-Gibbs
Marlene,
I shall miss all our show-and-tell quilting sessions. I admired your creativity and natural talent in quilting. Your light will be sorely missed. I am so happy that you were able to light the torch of another quilter, your daughter-in-law. I know she will have many happy memories from your time together.
Love,
Ann
---- 9/28/01 12:52:37 PM
Aida Pigott
Marlene--Thank you for your smile, your hellos and your kindness. You're are missed more than you will ever know.
---- 9/28/01 1:18:05 PM
Susan Rosko
It is very difficult for me to write this without a few tears. Though it has been six years since I have last spoken to Marlene, I have many fond and vivid memories of this generous person. I remember talking with her just about every day - just about anything, since my office was in ISDO. She always had a smile; her down-to-earth demeanor made everyone feel comfortable. I am fortunate to have a bit of Marlene in my home, a beautiful baby quilt she made for me when my first child was born seven years ago. My prayers go to your husband and family. May your soul rest in peace, Marlene...
---- 9/28/01 2:06:26 PM
Brenda Jordan
I will always remember her beautiful spirit and the beautiful blankets she created with love. Marlene was such a bright spirit.
Rest in Peace
---- 9/30/01 12:49:41 PM
Kathryn Lehar
It is with great sadness that I read Marlene Klauba has passed away.
I always enjoyed talking with her whenever I had the opportunity to visit the Administration Office in Evanston.
It is hard to believe she won't be there again.
---- 9/30/01 2:56:03 PM
Dorothy Ramm
I'm sure many retired staff, like me, treasure one of the quilts she made as farewell gifts for us. She will certainly be missed by everyone who knew her at NUL.
---- 10/1/01 8:07:08 AM
Mary Linke
Marlene, You will always be in my heart. I will miss you.
---- 10/1/01 2:45:17 PM
Sue McClelland
Marlene,
I'm so happy to have known your wonderful smile, generous, creative,spirit and kind helpfulness, however briefly. It was always a pleasure to encounter you at the library and you managed to make a job into a 'calling' and lifted so many of us along the way. My heart will ache a long time for your family & loved ones...but I know the angels are rejoicing all over heaven to have you home again. You will be sorely missed!
---- 10/1/01 3:38:43 PM
Shelli Elstein
The poet, John Keats, wrote "the center will not hold" but Keats was wrong. Marlene was our center and we will hold on to cherished memories of her and how much she gave to the Library and to each of us.
She taught us a final lesson; that we never thanked her enough, in time for her to hear it. Perhaps that is her legacy--to remind us to express appreciation while there is time.
Thank you, Marlene, for reminding us of what we
all too often forget.
Shelli
---- 10/2/01 10:21:19 AM
Leslie Bjorncrantz
A colorful quilt of friendships and memories, artfully crafted by Marlene, will link us to her always.
---- 10/2/01 2:53:54 PM
Sharon Smith
You wove a tapestry of friendship for all to join; with a smile and warm fellowship you included everyone in your circle. Your laughter and joy was expressed for all to share. I'll miss you, Marlene. Thank you for being my friend!
---- 10/2/01 3:05:11 PM
Ben Goldberger
Marlene, you really made me feel welcome and were a friend to me right from the start. I will really miss you.
---- 5/15/02 12:49:30 AM
Rose Klauba
I just chanced upon this website tonight. I don't know what to say. I am so touched by the love my late sister-in-law's co-workers have for her and continue to show by memorializing her memory and spirit via this website. Thank you.
Thank you for keeping her beauty, her gentleness, her kindness, her life's energy continue to comfort us all as if she were tucking us all in with one of her patchwork quilts.
Bless you all.
Rose Klauba
---- 5/21/02 1:52:21 AM
Judith Klauba Benshoof
When my sister said that there was a website tribute to Marlene, I did not realize the extent to which her co-workers would go to express their love and admiration for someone so special to me.
Thank you for expressing your heartfelt emotions through your words and pictures. You obviously had discovered what her family already knew---that she was a treasure beyond price. Truly, the loving care and concern she showed for each person she met has left an indelible mark upon each heart.
---- 8/24/02 3:38:25 PM
Jim Klauba
I was thinking about my mom today, as I do everyday. I go to this website to get some comfort in knowing how many people she touched with her genuine kindness.
There was a very huge hole in my life when my mom passed. She was so good to us and I can never thank her enough for that. As I write this my wife Maltita is sewing something for a friend of hers, using skills my mom passed down to her.
It is amazing that phrase "you never what you got until its gone". Well...I knew what we had, and I'm thankful to God that he made me realize that years ago.
To The people of Northwestern: thank you for all of your thoughts and memories. It has meant more to me than you can ever realize.
Mom, I miss you everyday of my life....
your son
Jim Klauba
---- 9/11/03 10:18:54 PM
Moe Baly
I'm a quilting friend of Marlene's. This weekend NSQG, her guild, is having a quilt show at Harper College. Tonight was set up night for the show, I was setting up a special section called, "In Rememberence". It's for the women from NSQG who have gone to heaven since our last show, Sept 2001. There have been 5.
I don't have a quilt to hang of Marlene's but I thought I'd write up something to put in a frame on the table to remember her by. I'm so glad I came across this web site!
Our raffle quilt is dedicated to the memory of Marlene, and the other women who joined her in heaven. You can view the quilt on www.nsqg.com, scroll down to read the beautiful label we made in dedication of our "quilting angels".
I just wanted her family and friends from NW to know she is still remembered by many in her quilting guild also.
---- 9/16/03 2:15:01 PM
Moe Baly (moequiltz@comcast.net)
Northwest Suburban Quilter's Guild Quilt Show as this past weekend. We set up a special section "In Rememberence" of our "Quilting Angels", it was a very nice way to remember Marlene and others who have gone to heaven the past 2 years since our last quilt show.
I knew Marlene because I'm also from the southside (originally), we met at a quilt show in South Holland Il many years ago and always made it a point to talk to each other at guild, and to sit near each other. My best quilting friend Vicki is also a "Quilting Angel", she left us and two young boys in March of 2003, liver cancer.
I'm proud to say that I WON NSQG's RAFFLE QUILT which was dedicated to the memory of Marlene, Vicki, Donna, Sheryl, and Anne. I'll always treasure this quilt for the special memories it holds, for the special friends that we lost.
