Our dear, sweet grandmother/ great-grandmother passed away last Sunday night at 10:00 pm peacefully. Della was 99 and a half years old and lived a rich, fulfilling life filled with love for all living things. She passed gently knowing her family loved her very much and ready to embrace her life beyond death. Della's wishes were to be interned with her husband and son all together at one time, this will take place at a private family service in Napa.

Helen Goertz Busby, granddaughter

Della Goertz's notebook PDF - It's NOT fixed again -  5-19-11 Fixed but file too big. Have to work on it at home, arriving 5-25-11 - dc

These notes are mostly on Shunryu Suzuki

My notes from three years ago say:

 you need to go to View and rotate clockwise. p35 is upside down. Will fix when know how. I'm not used to working with PDFs. Assistance welcome. Got these notes from Richard Baker at Crestone Mountain Zen Center. Most are for dates we don't have transcripts. She's in Zen Aluminati. I just did a Google site search for Della [della site:www.cuke.com] and found a bunch of mentions but not some longer interviews I know I have - Barbara Lubanski did one. Need an intern to get to all this. Or maybe just time. - dc

8-02-09 - Barbara Wenger - L and Jana Draka on the right with Della Goertz on her 97th birthday. Thanks to Della's granddaughter, Helen Busby, with whom she lives for the photo.  click on image to enlarge

7-09-11 - I wanted to let folks now that my Grandmother, Della is doing very well. She has her 99th birthday coming up on July 11 and I would love for as many people as possible to wish her well. She recently moved from my home in Napa about 3 miles down the road to a wonderful, 24 hour private residential care facility. Della suffered a mild stroke in early May, that made it impossible for me to continue caring for her

by myself in my home. She has almost fully recovered and has regained much of her strength now. She has actually been more alert and talkative than I have seen her in a long time. A change of pace is sometimes a good thing for all. She enjoys greatly the attention she receives from "Jimmie" one of the male care givers.

Her new address is 3684 Jomar Drive, Napa CA 94558 and the phone number is 707-226-5684. They welcome visitors at any time, phone calls are OK but sometimes difficult for her to hear the voices. Any type of mail is always treasured as well.

Hope all is well with you and your families,

Helen Busby
Della's Granddaughter

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Happy 99th Birthday Della Goertz!

Visited with Della at a residential home in Napa yesterday. She feels fine and only has a smidgeon of short term memory left, but she loved having me go over names from people in her past: Betty Warren, Ananda Claude Dalenberg, Jean Ross, Bill and Laura Kwong, Philip and JJ Wilson (she asked a couple of times if I was Philip), Grahame Petchey, Richard Baker, Mel Weitsman - and from the more recent past, Barbara and Michael Wenger, Jana Drakka, Blanch and Lou Hartman - and others. - dc

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