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| Robert & Jane Newman |
I was talking on the phone with Jane Newman in Stamford Conn. the other day. We talk more frequently these days now that her husband, Robert, my first cousin, died late last year at age 91. Jane is very lonely and misses the love of her life.
And well she might.
It had been a magnificent marriage, and Jane who married Robert later in life found the perfect mate. Robert, a renaissance man for his time, a retired vice president for finance and product development at General Electric, and Jane a retired librarian. He collected rare ancient coins, traveled the world, made magnificently produced films of almost every country in the world. On his 80th birthday he and Jane traveled around the world, Europe, Siberia, Mongolia, China. (They never missed their traditional two Martinis before dinner, even on the Siberian Express.) It is all recorded and meticulously narrated on film.
