On September 13, 2009, Carolyn Farkas PhD (nee Farb), devoted wife of Dr. Henry Farkas; beloved mother of Brian Farkas of Milford, DE, Kathy Farkas of Los Angeles, CA, and Miriam Zink of San Diego, CA; loving mother-in-law of Lisa Farkas, Chris Angel, and Doug Zink; beloved sister of Dr. Stanley Farb of Somerset, NJ; loving sister-in-law of Mignon Farb, Ken and Ellen Farkas; cherished grandmother of Derek, Ashley, Andreu, Dane, Tyler, Branden, Mason, and Naomi.

Memorial contributions in her memory may be sent to Family Services Association, 718 N. Bridge Street, Elkton, MD, 21921-5310. This was the agency from which the Farkas family adopted Miriam, their youngest daughter. Carolyn served on their board of directors for many years.

You can listen to, and download, an MP3 of the funeral service by going to

http://sollevinson.com

Click on Daily Funeral Schedule. When you get to the schedule page, there's a search box. Type in Farkas and you'll see the MP3s for Carolyn's service and for my mother's service.

Yesterday, Carolyn was feeling ill. In the evening, she decided to have me take her to the ER. On the way out of the house, she had a sudden, unexpected cardiac arrest. I did CPR, the paramedics did CPR, but nothing worked. She was pronounced dead at Union Hospital at 9:30 PM. I'll probably never know what she died of.

Progress Report

Here's a progress report on my cancer. I'm back in Maryland, and I just had a PET/CT and a head MRI. The PET/CT shows no detectable cancer. The heat MRI shows that the brain tumor that they irradiated at Christiana Hospital in 2008 is still dead, and there are no new brain tumors. So things are looking good right now.

The video doesn't have anything to do with my progress report. It's shows our granddaughter, Naomi dancing, singing, and pretending to play a toy guitar.

Here's a picture of Mom and me. I was two and she was 25. Some of the people who attended her funeral service did remember her from back then. I can't say that I remember her from when she was 25, but I do remember that when I was in elementary school, whenever we had parents visitation day at school, she was always the cutest mom there.

Mom died the day before yesterday. Here are a couple of pictures of her on a family cruise we took about a year ago. In the top picture, where we're all wearing the cruise T shirts, she's on the left next to Carolyn. In the bottom picture she's right up front in the center. In my next blog entry, I'll put up a picture of her from about 63 years ago because she was concerned about how she'd look, and how people would remember her. Actually, she looked really good for an 88 year old lady. These two pictures are four generatio pictures. The show her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

A four generation picture, left to right, me, my granddaughter, Naomi, my mother, Dorothy, and my daughter, Kathy.

UNauthorized animals will clearly not enter beyond that point because there's a sign telling them not to enter there.

Carolyn and I are back in Maryland, although we haven't gotten home yet. We're hanging out near Baltimore so we can keep my Mom company while she continues her recuperation process from her hip pinning surgery. My brother, who lives near here, is on his honeymoon.

Earlier today, we went to the Maryland Zoo at Baltimore. It used to be the Baltimore Zoo, but I suppose the city must have asked the state for money, and, like with sports stadiums, with money comes naming rights.