Dear Family and Friends,
A fund has now been set up for June, Ian and Imogen at Poehling Capital Management of Madison, WI (https://www.poehlingcapital.com/). The Paypal route to donate is now closed. If you haven't yet donated, or wish to donate again, you can still do so. Please contact me via email listed below and I will give you the electronic fund transfer information or we can come up with an alternate method.
In the next few days, as soon as PayPal releases the funds, the sum of $10,060 will be placed into the account. Thank you all very much.
There will be a second memorial service for Rick on June 29, 2013 at 2:00PM at the Assumption College Chapel located at 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA. June and the kids will be attending. I hope to see or meet many of you there.
Contact information:
347-396-2626
DWeiss@health.nyc.gov
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Rick Burch Heffernan
Richard Burch Heffernan died on Sunday, February 24, 2013. He was with his family and made comfortable. It is hard to feel anything but overwhelming sadness. He was too young. I want to say what a good person he was, but somehow simple platitudes just don't do the man justice. Besides, everyone who met him already knows this.
The memorial service will be Sunday March 17th at 2 PM at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive Madison, WI. Rick's obituary will be printed in the Wisconsin State Journal om March 3, 2013. Link to that page is here:
To make a donation look for the button at the bottom of the blog. The money will be placed into a education fund for Ian and Imogen and be made available to June to meet the family needs.
Thanks.
Donation Update:
Number of donations: 42
Credits: $8870.00
Expenditures: $135.04 (4 catered Wednesday meals for family)
Balance: $8734.96
THANK YOU!
The club
Most of you who are visiting this site know Rick Burch Heffernan, June, Ian and Imogen. This was Rick back in 2007 just before he moved to Wisconsin. He moved there for a better quality of life for his family. That is the type of person he is, but you already know that. A couple of years ago Rick learned he had stage IV lung cancer and he's been battling ever since. We are catering a meal a week for Rick and his family and also setting up a fund for whatever the family should need to sustain them throughout the fight. I invite you to write down your thoughts and prayers.
A word is in order about the name of this site. Rick, Melissa, Denis, Adam, Joel and a few others whose names I can't recall used to meet in Prospect Park whenever our schedules aligned to play soccer. Rick was pretty good, well perhaps the best though Joel might take issue. We ran, sweated, fell, laughed and did those things that brought us so much enjoyment as kids. It wasn't so much about teamwork, or releasing job tensions, as it was really about building friendships and connecting to that part of us we didn't want to lose as adult responsibilities piled higher than dirty socks.
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