Shirley Gordineer Townsend Shares Sad News about Gina Dailey Koll

Hello Sisters in Theta ~
 
Our Sorority sister, Gina Dailey Koll, has just found out she has terminal uterine cancer. It has spread to her lungs and her time is limited. I thought it would be wonderful to have a Shower of cards ~ "To cheer you" or "Thinking of you " sent to her in the nursing home (address below). She went for a check up last Monday and was put into the hospital and learned her fate two days later. She is accepting and has an upbeat attitude.

Gina lived in the house from the spring of 1951 in the big room over the dining room . She was our song leader in '52 and '53 and loved everything about Theta. About seven years ago she made a lovely scrapbook of our four years at Theta and I presented it to Theta at the fall luncheon in the alumnae building, but it seems it has been lost.
 

Thank you in advance. 
 
Sincerely,

Shirley Gordineer Townsend '54
 

Conway Lakes Health & Rehab Center

Gina Koll Room 115A

Curry Ford Road

Orlando, Fl 32812
 
Additional note: I do think the time is limited due to her lungs filling and having them drained every few days. This whole known illness is only twelve days old and she does not know how much time she has.
 
Gina has been a widow 29 years, one year longer than she was married, and her daughters live in NJ and New York. I was the one to go to Orlando for the procedure and take her to the hospital, so I feel very much involved, although I live two hours away from Orlando. Friendships made in Theta last a lifetime.

Joan Kisver Elbaz

Attached is a picture of my husband and I taken at Hearst Castle a few years ago.

We were married 5 years ago after a 12 year courtship. It is the second marriage for both of us. We pooled our resources and bought a house in Ft. Lauderdale, a few blocks from the beach. He loves the beach, I don't. I have been a Professional Organizer for 15 years. Although I still retain a few clients, I am mostly retired. Some days are spent playing mah jong and sometimes canasta. I would love to get together with any of my Theta sisters visiting South Florida. Last November, Jean Schell Pardee and I got together when she was visiting her mother in Port St. Lucie. We hadn't seen each other in 40 years. This reunion happened because we had stayed in contact with other Thetas through the years.

- Joan Kisver Elbaz