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Directories
GEYER, HARLAN MARTIN, SR. (Age 85)
Of Reston, VA, died on Friday, March 24, 2006 at Fair Oaks Hospital. He was born July 20, 1920 in the town of Wellman, IA to the late Francis Grant and Grace McGimpsey Geyer.
Harlan served 20 years in the US Marine Corps, attaining the rank 1st Sergeant. As a member of the 2nd Marine Division, he took the part in the Battle of Tarawa, one of the bloodiest battle of the Pacific in World War II. He also served in the Battles of Saipan and Tinian.
On June 11, 1945 he was joined in marriage to Ila I. Bear. After her passing in 1992, he was united in marriage to his second wife, Mary Gallagher Farley Bahlmann, who passed away in 2001. Harlan is survived by three brothers, Calvin, Larry and La Verne; his sisters, Doris Allard, Dorothy Biddle and Niva Nix; his daughter, Cherie Geyer and his grandchildren, Christopher and Christian and Christina Geyer and her husband, Rainer Spang. Harlan also rejoiced in being a loving grandfather to Beth, Patty, Scott and Chris Farley, grandchildren of his second wife. He was preceded in death by his son, Harlan M. Geyer.
Funeral services for HARLAN M. GEYER will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 1 at ADAMS-GREEN FUNERAL HOME, 721 Elden St., Herndon, VA. Burial will be at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, April 11 at 10 a.m. Relatives and friends are welcome.
Published in The Washington Post on 3/29/2006. View/Sign Guest Book.
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Grandpa passed on Friday
We’ve been busy since then cleaning out his apartment. My job included writing his obituary, which will be in The Washington Post and The Reston Times tomorrow, and going through all his old photos and scanning them onto the computer. I will also be making a photo collage that will be exhibited at his funeral.
I’ve got a cold, which sucks. I had a cold just before I flew here, I’m not sure if this is the same one or a new one, but I think I have an ear infection because my ear hurts like a $*&%$$%#! today.
Charlie has learned to use the doggy door after a week and a half. He’s terrified of doors, so I consider this good progress for him. I have no idea what his thing with doors is, but he won’t push them open to go through, even if the opening is just slightly too narrow for him. And if the door isn’t fully open, he needs to run through just in case it decides it’s gonna close on him.
Ahhh… the pitter patter of paws
I’m back in the US as of last night. Grandpa has taken a turn for the worse and I suppose I’m here for the end. Charlie made the trip with me and he and Tasha and Chow Chow (my mom’s dogs) are running around like maniacs upstairs. Okay, I better relieve whoever is dealing with Charlie. More later.
It was the Professor with the candlestick in the library
I guess while I’m in a blogging mood I ought to share my new Harry Potter theory. I think there is something very fishy about Professor Flitwick (the charms teacher).
Breaking it down, his name in Old English means floating (flit) weaver (wick) - what is he weaving?
He is described in an almost excessive fashion as being “tiny”. The word “tiny” derives from the Old English word tine, meaning to destroy.
He’s supposed to be this former dueling champion, but Snape knocks him out in the dungeon. When Flitwick is in the dungeon with Snape, he is heard telling Snape that the Death Eaters are attacking and he needs to come help, but he is then supposedly stunned and Rowling makes it clear that he was not able to finish the sentence - so should we wonder WHO Snape was supposed to come help?
‘Outside Snape’s office, yes,’ whispered Hermione, her eyes sparkling with tears, ‘with Luna. We hung around for ages outside it and nothing happened … we didn’t know what was going on upstairs, Ron had taken the Marauder’s Map … it was nearly midnight when Professor Flitwick came sprinting down into the dungeons. He was shouting about Death Eaters in the castle, I don’t think he really registered that Luna and I were there at all, he just burst his way into Snape’s office and we heard him saying that Snape had to go back with him and help and then we heard a loud thump and Snape came hurtling out of his room and he saw us and – and – ’
‘What?’ Harry urged her.
‘I was so stupid, Harry!’ said Hermione in a high-pitched whisper. ‘He said Professor Flitwick had collapsed and that we should go and take care of him while he – while he went to help fight the Death Eaters – ’
She covered her face in shame and continued to talk into her fingers, so that her voice was muffled.‘We went into his office to see if we could help Professor Flitwick and found him unconscious on the floor … and, oh, it’s so obvious now, Snape must have Stupefied Flitwick, but we didn’t realise, we just let Snape go!’
And something I had attributed as evidence of Snape being a vampire, namely the fact that he is always “FLITting” around his dungeon, may be a clue as to who we should really be suspicious of. In the series, the only other character described as flitting is Ollivander, the wandmaker. It is clear that Rowling wants us to suspect Snape and Ollivander (old Ollie creeps Harry out when he goes to get his wand in the first book), but I think that in the end there will be nothing wrong with these two characters.
Well, just one more year until we know for sure.
You know…
there is something to be said for giving children slightly more unique names. In my family tree research of a great-great-something aunt Charlotte Griffith, I found that she married a guy named Thomas Clark who died in 1863 in Arkansas. Since he was born in Indiana and they lived in Iowa, I’m guessing he died in the civil war and I thought there might be an interesting story there, since there are civil war records available. Do you know how many freakin’ Thomas Clark’s there were who served in the Union Army and died in Arkansas? It’s unbelievable. I have no way of knowing which one is which. Additionally, his full name was Thomas Jefferson Clark, which was apparently an extremely popular name, because the Thomas Jefferson Clark’s around in the 1860’s could populate a small city.
It snowed again last night
Grandpa’s in the hospital, did I mention that before? I think I did actually and it takes too darn long for the pages to load so I’m not checking. He was supposed to get a stint put into his esophagus last night to allow him to eat and drink again. I need to call home and see how he is, but since I didn’t get a middle of the night phone call, I’m guessing it couldn’t have gone too badly.
Rainer got an email from a professor in the School of Public Health at Harvard asking if he might be interested in a job there. He’s supposed to phone Rainer today, so maybe we’ll have some good news soon on the jobfront soon. Rainer is also most likely going to be offered a position at the University of Leipzig.
Okay, laters….
Crash into me
And the Oscar goes to…
1952 - “The Greatest Show on Earth” tops “High Noon” and “The Quiet Man”
1968 - “Oliver!” upsets “Funny Girl” and “The Lion in Winter”
1997 - “Titanic” steamrolls “L.A. Confidential”
1998 - “Shakespeare in Love” beats out “Elizabeth”, “Life is Beautiful”, “Saving Private Ryan”, and “The Thin Red Line”
2005 - “Crash” robs “Brokeback Mountain,” “Capote,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” and “Munich”
Okay, okay, okay… of this year’s Best Picture nominees, I’ve only seen “Brokeback” and “Crash”, so I maybe cannot be trully authoritative that “Crash” stole the award from the others, but I’m trusting the critics on this until I get a chance to see them. “Brokeback” had me holding back sobs in a packed theater for the whole second half of the movie (and I’m not someone who cries all that easily). It is the first and only movie for which I have ever signed up for an email notification of the DVD release date on Amazon.com.
I thought “Crash” was good, I watched it at my grandpa’s over the holidays (it was my brother’s copy) after it sat around there for a few weeks. After viewing, I considered buying the DVD for a few minutes before deciding it wasn’t worth it (and I have several hundred DVDs, so this IS saying something).
On a lighter note, Salma Hayek and Uma Thurman had awesome dresses. Eric Bana is really freakin’ sexy. Clive Owens too.
“Constant Gardner” is the Monday-night-English-language movie in Potsdam tonight. I’d like to see it, but I’ll probably wait till it comes on cable. I’m considering buying “A History of Violence” sight unseen. It sounds really good and I didn’t know Ed Harris was in it until yesterday, which means it probably IS really good.
I’m also really into the HBO series “Rome”, which is currently playing on pay-tv here. Last night was the episode where Caesar and Cleopatra got together. How is this series going over in the US? There’s an awful lot of male full frontal nudity (it’s about time!) and sex (this is perhaps a bit overdone).
Wow, Ang Lee’s brother was just on CNN International and he looks just like Ang. They also just reran the announcement of “Crash” as Best Picture and this reminds me that the lady in the orange strapless dress made a bad choice (I think she’s wife of the director - ???). She looked like she was about to fall out of her dress all night. It’s just not elegant to be pulling up your top every time you’re on camera.
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