Guest Register for Joy Bale Boone
Dr. Phillip Bale & Family, I am so sorry to hear of your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Our trip to Spain is 1998 with Joy and George was the most marvelous trip we have ever taken, and we will treasure those memories forever. Please accept our deepest condolences, and know that we both mourn with you and join you in celebrating Joy's rich and remarkable life.
So sorry to hear the death of your love one. May God help to easy all pains.God Bless
My deapest sympathies to all who knew Joy. A large part of me died on October 1, 2002, too. Except for Karen, Christine and Dale, I felt closer to Joy than any other relative; she was truly a joy.
It was a privilege to have known and to have worked with Joy. Her warmth and her enthusiasm were unending. She was a constant source of inspiration for her colleagues, for editors, for poets and their readers. She was a blessing.
I remember the first time I met Joy, about fifty years ago. My cousins Frank and Ronnoc Connor took me with them to Kentucky and there I met this amazing woman with her equally amazing family. The liveliness of that home was something I'd never imagined or seen, and the image of it has remained, a warm glowing and precious memory. Her love of poetry, and her encouragement of my own efforts to write poetry made a difference in my life and I thank her for that generous gift.
Our prayers and thoughts are with you.
I only learned of Joy's passing today (16 January 2006). I knew Joy when I was a young physician in Elizabethtown, and her son, Richard, and I graduated from U. of L. Medical School together. Her husband, Garnett, died shortly after I had moved there. I lost contact with the Bale (Boone) family after leaving Elizabethtown to enter my anesthesiology residency at Chapel Hill, but I will always remember her warmth, hospitality and graciousness. My condolences, albeit belated, to the entire Bale/Boone family. David