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“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The
second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment,
sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
-David Eagleman
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“To The Person Who Will Be The Last To Speak My Name”

You’ll come across it in some database–
an arcane list, an ancient family tree–
a ghost town on the edge of cyberspace,
where signs decay and landmarks atrophy.

Already several decades will have passed
since someone said it, thinking of a “him,”
and how he lived. Now you will be the last
before my name becomes a homonym.

I have no grand instructions to convey –
your breathy, puzzled mumble will be fine.
We all have ways to say the things we say,
and I’m content to have your way be mine.

Take care as much or little as you will,
just hold the silence after till I’m still.

-David Rosenthal

Rosenthal Lindeman Murphy

Sidney Oaks Lindeman and Mae McIntyre Elliott Lindeman Children

Edith Elliott Lindeman (Calisch)

Edith Lindeman
Edith Lindman
Sidney, Mae an Edith Lindeman
Sidney, Mae an Edith Lindeman c. 1900
Edith Elliott Lindeman about age 2
Edith Elliott Lindeman about age 2

(The above photos submitted by Lori Cooper Smith and Nelson Calisch)

Edith Lindeman Confirmation Photo 1911
Edith Lindeman 1913
Edith Elliott Lindeman and Abraham Woolner Calisch Wedding 1920
Edith Lindeman
Edith with Frances Calisch (Rothenberg)
Edith’s Children, Elliott “Bud” Calisch and Frances Calisch (Rothenberg)

David Shields Lindeman

David Shields Lindeman Age 13
David Shields Lindeman
David Shields Lindeman Last Portrait

John Bruce Lindeman

John Bruce Lindeman
John Bruce Lindeman and David Lindeman
John Lindeman
John Bruce Lindeman

Betty Ann “Betsy” Lindeman (Rosenthal)

Betsy’s birth certificate lists her given name as Henrietta Anna after her grandmother, with Betty Ann in quotes. She never used Henrietta Anna and disliked it. Only her husband would occasionally use that name to annoy her when he was irritated with her about something. She preferred “Betsy”.

Betsy Lindeman with Her Nanny
Betsy Lindeman
Betsy Lindeman
Betsy Lindeman 1922 Age 4
Betsy Sitting in Front of the Lindeman Family Home, Possibly Maylin Lawn in Richmond, VA

During the summer of her 16th year, Betsy visited with her aunt, Hannah Lindeman Schwarz and husband Joe in Dayton, Ohio. The Schwarz family was heavily involved in the arts. They had given refuge to a struggling depression era artist, who paid part of his rent by painting Betsy’s portrait. It was during his summer that Betsy’s father, Sidney Lindeman, passed away.

Portrait of Betsy at Age 16 in 1934
Betsy Lindeman Around the Time of her Marriage
Betsy Lindeman Rosenthal about 1957. (Portrait by Joe Kirkish)

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