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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Edward V. Sullivan Funeral Home
43 Winn Street
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
781-272-0050
Saturday
7
January
Memorial Service
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Edward V. Sullivan Funeral Home
43 Winn Street
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
781-272-0050
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Jay B. Barnes posted a condolence
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Prayers for Bob and his entire family. Contact me anytime Bob. Graham Mann shared he is praying for all of you too.
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Bob Higson Posted Jan 11, 2023 at 6:19 AM
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Jay B. Barnes Posted Jan 12, 2023 at 9:13 PM
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Anne Taylor posted a condolence
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Gone too soon!
Thank you Cora for all the memories and the laughter and the friendship.
From Lauriats at Shoppers World to the many Moody Blues concerts we attended and of course, our shared love of Justin Hayward, we had a ball.
Thank you Bob for putting together the perfect memorial service and send off. My heart is with you and I hope each passing day gets a little easier for you.
Love
Anne Taylor
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Beth Medeiros posted a condolence
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Dear Bob, I am sorry that I could not make the memorial service today.
Cora was such a great lady! We first met at the Horace Mann dorms. She had such a wonderful smile and giggle. She lit up the room with her friendly nature and fun sense of humor. Always the life of the party.
I am ever so great full for you both hosting our holiday get together do we all could catch up. I was very moved when she gave us each a plate of her treasured May Hall plates to remember our kindred friendship and time at school.
I’m every time I say or hear “cool beans” I think of her.
I will miss you my sweet friend!
Sending hugs to you Bob!
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Tania benway lit a candle
Friday, January 6, 2023
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Cora was an amazing woman who could light up any room. She was always there to talk to and someone who I will greatly miss. She was there for me for all the big and small things. I will greatly miss seeing her.
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Friday, January 6, 2023
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Bob: We were so saddened to hear of the passing of your beloved Cora. As you now i first met her back in the late 70's while we were working the summers in Ogunquit, Maine and we have managed to stay friends all these years and remember each others special occasions with a special hallmark card. WE will always cherish the memories With heavy hearts- XOXO-
Bruce & Serge
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Friday, January 6, 2023
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Dear Bob,
I am writing this from my home in a small village by the ocean on the Swedish West Coast and I have not seen Cora IRL for many years but we have been in touch now and then. After the snail mail period mostly online but also by phone. Cora was one of my dear close friends at FSC where I spent a very happy year 1976/77 as a foreign student and Cora was a freshman. She was part of our very close group of girls, always with her great attitude and happy smile and always kind to everyone. She invited me home to her parents’ beautiful house with lots of antiques and many interesting things. The huge antique doll house upstairs! Most of all: Cora’s smiling face and the Alton generosity. Cora’s Mom’s hospitality and genuine warmth. Interesting conversations with all three of them and still lots of memories now, 45 years later. I met with Cora again when I returned in 1986 and we had a nice dinner together with some of the other FSC girls.
In the fall of 2016 Cora & I got a lot closer again after years of more sporadic contact. I was returning to Massachusetts and I had planned to get all the girls back together for our 40 year reunion. When I told Cora what I was trying to organize, she immediately - still as generous and friendly as always - suggested we should all meet first at your house, before the planned walk along ‘memory lane’ on FSC campus (now FSU). I thought that was a great idea and I was looking forward immensely to seeing both of you that October. Talking to Cora over the phone it was like no time had passed since our youth, we just kept talking like we used to do back in the dorm or the cafeteria. She told me about you Bob, in the way girls talk, telling me about her great happiness that you had found each other, her love for you. And I was happy for both of you. Unfortunately I was hit by ominous health issues right before my trip over there and we had to postpone the reunion. This turned into a lengthy process, including my doctor’s “no flying whatsoever” verdict. Covid certainly did not improve reunions but finally these past few months I have regained some hope that I will be physically able to take up travelling again in the coming few years. New happy thoughts about a possible reunion came along, but no actual plans yet.
If and when another FSC reunion will be possible, be absolutely sure that Cora will be greatly missed and not forgotten among the rest of us still around. She will be there with us in spirit. And for myself, I will carry her memory and smile within my heart forever and in my mind as long as aging allows.
You have made a beautiful memorial video for Cora. Here I have added some of my own old and faded printed photos. But my memories have not faded. These days we would have taken selfies together. Back then I took that photo of her, she is sitting in her dorm. She probably had similar ones of me in her own camera. The one of me is from a hike to Tuckerman Ravine, not with Cora but at least you can see what I looked like that year. The rest of the photos are from a happy weekend with Cora and her parents at their beautiful house and from one of our excursions.
I have a candle here beside me for Cora while writing this and I will light another one during the service. I will try the offered possibility to attend online.
Rest in peace, Cora B!
From your long term friend forever Carin Koch (Carlsson back then)
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Lee Alton posted a condolence
Thursday, January 5, 2023
"I always felt deeply connected to my cousin Cora for we were both members of the zipper club, a club for those who have scars from open heart surgery. Most recently, Cora and Bob traveled very far for my baby shower in Richmond in 2019. It meant the world to me and now my son Charlie & I read the sweet gift of A.A. Milne with so much extra joy knowing she gave it to us. I remember we couldn't stop talking at Aunt Kathy's kitchen table, catching up and laughing. She always was a great listener and showed so much interest in everything I shared. I love her and miss her beautiful smile & connection dearly." Love cousin Jess
I knew Jessica would have the same feelings that I had, knowing that they both shared the same journey. Cora gave me the strength to carry on. One of her pictures that I hold dear to my heart was of her sitting on the granite stoop prior to her operation. We will always remember our holiday celebrations at our houses, just up the road from one another, on what was once our family's farm. Our times together will be cherished forever.
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Bernadette M. Nelson posted a symbolic gesture
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
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Dear Bob and family and friends,
My deepest sympathies to you on the passing of Cora. May your happy memories help to sustain you.
Sincerely,
Bernadette Nelson
Worcester Chorus
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Saturday, December 31, 2022
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Bob,
The world (and you) lost a terrific lady. I am heartbroken as I am sure that you are. I found this photo from Christmas 2008 and thought I would share one from happier times. I have known her since 1977 at FSC in Concert Choir and Chorus. She was one of the kindest and most thoughtful ladies I have ever had the privilege to know and love. Words are tough to express everything that is in my heart for her and for you at this time. I will listen in on the service.
Love
Janet and David Riley
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Saturday, December 31, 2022
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Edward V. Sullivan
Funeral Home
43 Winn Street
Burlington, MA 01803
Ph: (781) 272-0050
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