Thanks to everyone who joined us, even in the cruddy weather. While Alicia’s high school English teacher was reading selections from To Kill A Mockingbird, there was a break in the rain and then an unexpected gift appeared…
It was captured by someone who was on their way to the service and shared this picture. The accompanying email read:
Emily took this picture as she was walking up to Alicia Parlette’s public memorial service this evening. Synchronicity? Coincidence? No. Faith and Love.
I took this yesterday as we were cleaning out her apartment – one of the notes Alicia kept taped to her bathroom mirror. I like to think she’s in glory now.
[glawr-ee, glohr-ee]
–noun
(emphasis mine)
Please join us – we will be meeting in Lafayette Park at 6 PM, rain, shine, or threatening cloud cover that we hope will just hold out and not actually rain on us.
Scroll down to the entry from May 5 for more details.
A public memorial will be held Monday for Alicia Parlette, the 28-year-old Chronicle copy editor with incurable cancer who shared her story with San Francisco and the world.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/06/BAOR1DAI11.DTL#ixzz0nHPEndMv
Alicia’s friends will be holding a public memorial for Ms. Parlette this coming Monday.
Family, friends, and readers are invited to a public celebration in San Francisco.
We will have some friends of Alicia’s speak, share a reading from To Kill A Mockingbird, and open the stage to those who wish to tell a story about Alicia or her work.
When
Monday May 10
6-8 PM PST
Where
Lafayette Square, San Francisco
(on Sacramento between Gough and Laguna)
The gathering will take place in the picnic area.
I’m sharing a parts of a recent email with Bernadette, one of Alicia’s collegues at the Chronicle. She has taken Clarabelle and passed along this (quite frankly, sometimes hilarious) update.
Calling all writers, journalists, chronic over-sharers! Share a story about how Alicia’s work or story touched you, inspired you, or moved you to action with us and we’ll publish it right here.
While researching the previous post about news and reactions to Alicia’s passing, I came across more personalized reactions than just reportage; they are linked to below. These are different or newer than anything listed on other pages.
Are we missing any? Please post your blog post in the comments below if we’ve missed them:
The AP picked up Alicia’s passing; this lead to a lot of national media coverage. News and news organization coverage compiled below (I’ve excluded most news aggregators that re-run the Chronicle articles or brief obituaries):
The Sacramento Bee published an obituary for Alicia on Friday of last week. You can read the full article here: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/23/2700022/parlette.html.
Alicia Parlette 