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So many friends and admirers showed up Sunday to mourn
Dr. Bob LeBow that several had to stand outside in drizzling
rain just to be near his funeral service.
More than
200 people jammed into every corner of Boise´s Relyea Funeral
Chapel to honor LeBow, 63, a nationally renowned health-care
activist for the poor. They hugged and cried silently during
and after the service for LeBow, who died Saturday from
complications related to a 2002 bicycle accident, which left
him a quadriplegic.
"Bob was the antithesis of the
doctor in the ivory tower," said Rabbi Daniel B. Fink of
Congregation Ahavath Beth-Israel, as he lauded LeBow´s
life-long fight to provide medical services to those who could
least afford them. "If it was a matter of right and wrong, he
would have his voice heard."
LeBow´s wife, Gail, and
his son, Ted, sat in the front row, holding hands and
alternately comforting each other. Ted LeBow had to fight back
tears as he read a note his daughter, Jess, wrote to honor her
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satisfied, as well as his duty," Ted LeBow read from
the note.
Mourners were silent and somber throughout
much of the service. But Fink drew laughs when he pointed out
that LeBow was so stubborn and true to his beliefs that he ran
for the Legislature in 1994 as a liberal Democrat in Canyon
County, one of Idaho´s most Republican territories.
By
Jewish custom, a funeral is held as soon as possible. But the
short notice didn´t stop a huge crowd from showing up,
including many legislators and local politicians. The burial
will be today at Morris Hill Cemetery.
LeBow first
began working at Terry Reilly Health Services in Nampa in 1971
and also served a stint for the Peace Corps in his effort to
bring health care to those least able to afford it.
Fink described LeBow as a man who had a thirst for
knowledge and the rare ability to turn it into wisdom. Even
after he was paralyzed, his dedication did not waver. On Aug.
12 he held a news conference in Philadelphia to advocate a
national health-insurance program.
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Bob LeBow could forget more than most of us will ever
know," Fink said. He noted that Jess LeBow once
said her grandfather "had so much knowledge it could build a
bridge to the moon."
LeBow was paralyzed on July 25,
2002, when he was thrown from his bicycle while riding from
his Boise home to work in Nampa.
The accident occurred
shortly after his book, "Health Care Meltdown," was released.
In the book he criticized the American health-care system,
which is built on the ability to pay. LeBow was an advocate
for universal health care and national health insurance.
by Patrick Orr,
The Idaho
Statesman,
December 1, 2003.
Retrieved from
http://www.idahostatesman.com/story.asp?ID=55145 on January 6,
2004.
Also see related story from the August 5, 2002
issue of the Idaho Press Tribune at
http://newspapers.
mywebpal.com/partners/347
/public/news340802.html
also retrieved on January 6, 2004.
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Dear Friends,
I have been looking for pictures
of Bolivia on the internet and stumbled over the Amigos website. My father, Charles T.
Snow, was in Bolivia, in the late 60's.....'67-'69 maybe?
I wanted to let you know that he passed away in '95.
He left my mom |
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and I with some amazing stories about his days in the
Peace Corps. He was so proud of all the time he spent, and all
the people he met. I remember him speaking of the experience
as if they were the greatest days of his life!
I would
like to ask that his name be on the deceased list on your
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website. I am not sure if he was a member of your
organization, but I know that he would have been a very proud
participant. I hope to carry on some of his love and passion
of the betterment of the rural peoples of Bolivia and also
hope to send in a donation in his name
soon.
Andrew Snow
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