Among Friends

[shoesnbags]

Oh no, this is not the news I expected this morning!  My prayers go out to her family.  May they take comfort in knowing that she lived a wonderful life and that they will see her again.

And thanks to @TheWanderingOne for sharing this news.  I was worried that we might never know what became of ECBG, as sometimes happens with online friends. So thank you for giving us closure, sad though it may be.

[Queen of shop]

I had always held out hope that ECBG would get better and come back to post. She was a HUGE part of this forum. I always remembered her in my night prayers lately. I'm glad she passed peacefully.

Thank you @TheWanderingOne  for informing us all here.

Cathy, it's nice to know her real name now, had always supplied me with great recipes. I have be making her "Million Dollar Pie" recipe for years now. Several years back, I remember posting about Cotton Candy Grapes. I had never heard of or seen them in any stores around here till that day. Cathy, wanted to know all about them too. I was glad that I wasn't the only one that never heard of them either. lol

It's funny how attached to some people here that I have become. Cathy was one of them. I do feel that we are all friends here. As such, my heart now has an empty space.

Rest in Peace sweet lady.

[amyb]

Oh no...what a shock to see this. I always enjoyed her posts and questions she'd post for conversation from time to time. Seems like she had been on here not too long ago. If she had an illness I didn't realize, or maybe this was sudden.

One time, a few years back, we chatted about similar things we'd done in fashion, for work...and a little about NC, and my expressing interest in visiting places there.

So very sorry to see this. Too young.

Will miss her here.

RIP ECBG.🤍🕊️

[MOMMAVik]

@TheWanderingOne  Thank you for sharing this. 

I was so sorry to see @ECBG suffering these past few weeks.  She was certainly a talented, outgoing lady.  I enjoyed her recipes and her posts on the Fashion Forum.  And yes, I loved her jewelry passion!

My condolences to her family and friends.  May she rest in peace and her memory be a blessing.  🙏

[Wsmom]

So very sorry to read this.  Just heartbreaking.  Like so many others I checked often to see if there were any updates.  My prayers go out to her family and friends.

[PugdogMom]

I don’t post often here, but I do read the fashion threads, especially “Outfit of the Day”. ECBG seemed like such a lovely woman, so enthusiastic about fashion, family, her puppy, and helping others. She seemed to have a true calling as a teacher. Reading the tributes on the funeral home site proves she made a lasting, positive impression on her students.

She was thoughtful enough to assist me with color analysis here on the forums a few years ago and I thought “what a kind lady”. I will miss seeing her well put-together outfits and reading her sweet, helpful posts. Prayers for her family and friends. 🙏

[dooBdoo]

Our friend, Cathy, had a radiant passion for anything and everything in her world of family, friends, fine crafts, antiques, decor, fashion, food, history, animals, nature.  

She spent very, very little time focusing on the tragedies and sadness she experienced, choosing instead to embrace gratitude and create an abundant life for herself and all whose lives she touched.  

I think of "joie de vivre" because she had a joyful delight in grasping the essence of the life around her and sharing it with her ebullient spirit. 

You could feel it, tangibly, reading her posts. 

That is part of her legacy, I think.

It was bound to be contagious, to draw people in, as we can see by the tender, heartfelt reactions to her passing.

She and I discovered an unexpected serendipitous "kinship" many years ago.....  I used to be an Asheville resident; we were aficionados of her much-loved Biltmore Estate; we lived in a rustic home in the woods that looked eerily like her photos; I've had a strong link to the Southern Highland Craft Guild and have been active in promoting America's fine crafts and the artists most of my adult life.  We were in touch by email, occasionally, usually about those things, and it was lovely...  a gift.

The warm, deeply-felt tributes made me cry as I went from page to page. 

We have such good people here.

The posts on this thread reflect a range of emotions elicited by an overwhelming, sudden loss.

It's unsettling and heartbreaking, to say the least, and I don't know that we imperfect humans ever can find a perfect avenue to acceptance of what we don't want to be true, rearranging our life to continue on when we can feel a perceptible shift.

Her contributions and presence were a strong and bright fiber, thread, filament, woven into this "community quilt," always could be counted on to be here.

A constant.  Now a shift.

I knew, over the years, that her earthly paradise was the beauty of the Blue Ridge mountains... now she's resting in her new heavenly paradise.  

I'm grateful for the grace of her spirit, and sad to say farewell.  

Rest in peaceful paradise, Cathy.❤️

Her family and friends are in my prayers.❤️

In her memory, may we all share, spread, and embrace compassion, love, understanding, and joy of life.❤️

[cheriere]

@Sage04 

I really appreciate your posting that, thank you.❤️

Unfortunatelly, I wasn't as familiar with her outfit of the day threads.  We talked a lot about recipes, decorating and just life.  She made me feel so welcomed when I first joined the forum here.  

 I'm still just shocked over this.🙏❤️

[rockygems123]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

It was an absolute shock to sign on and read this terrible news first thing this morning.  She always seemed so active, healthy and vital.  It's devastating to lose a good friend.  We posted back and forth often about the flora and fauna on their property and shopping.  She had a lovely home and so enjoyed entertaing her family on holidays...I  loved hearing about it.  I bet they have no idea this huge group of her friends even exists, as is the case with most of our families.

I wonder if daughter-in-love wrote the obituary?  Whoever did it, wrote it beautifully and captured her essence perfectly.

This board is just not going to be the same without her cheerful presence.  I'm so very sad.

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@Kachina624 

I remember her beautiful property pics she would post to you and it made me think you had visited there at one point.  If not it sure was a beauty of a location brought to life and thorough enjoyed her pics.

She posted a pic of her holiday table one year and it was so beautifully done and her words were very descriptive.  I wrote her letting her know it made my holidays more joyful seeing that pic and I could almost smell her fantastic holiday dinner displayed.

[tansy]

What incredibly sad news.  RIP ECBG.