I have sad news. This message just came from Liz Sargent:

As many of you know, Mom broke her hip on Oct. 8th, came home and was doing very well, but then suffered another fall on Nov. 21st hitting her head. Several days later she woke with a terrible headache and had bleeding on the brain. She was operated on at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, NH on Thanksgiving Eve. While the operation report was "good" in taking care of a "substantial" bleed, they told us Mom "was not out of the woods yet."

On Dec. 2nd she was transferred back to St. Johnsbury to the Health and Rehab facility. Some days brought a glimmer of hope and others we weren't sure what was going on in her head, etc.

This Sunday morning (Dec. 12) she died peacefully with her granddaughter (our daughter), Carrie, at her side. She suffered some kind of an episode on Thursday prior. She did not know us or really appear to know we were there after Thursday. We kept a vigil, but it was clear that we and she were not going to have the outcome we hoped and prayed for.

A service is planned for Thursday, Dec. 16, at 2 PM at the North Congregational Church, Main Street, St. Johnsbury, VT.

She will be dearly missed as she was such a wonderful lady and mother. We called her "Saint Lucia" and it was a title she deserved!

Liz

Elizabeth A. Sargent
529 Jamieson Rd.
Danville VT 05828
802-748-1456
lizsargent@charter.net
"God does not simply will that we should be happy, but rather that we should make ourselves happy." Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

We are so very sorry our dear friend, Lucia didn't make it after her unfortunate fall and operation. She follows her son, John, who died unexpectedly in February, 2009, and her dear husband, William "Bud" who died in April of this year. The Pearl family has owned the small island, formerly known as "Sim's Island" and now known as "Pearl Island," for many years. Lucia will certainly be missed by her many friends and her loving family.