To the Dirting family and friends of Frances Dirting, I offer my heartfelt sympathies.  I was saddened to learn of Francie Dirting's passing from my cousin Robin.  My fahter was a cousin of Francie's and he passed away last October.  I have a couple of photographs of them together - one as school-aged children and one as teenagers at their grandparents home in Ohio.  Nw the only one left alive from those photographs is my Uncle Jim.  I had the pleasureof a long phone conversation with Frances Dirting a few years back to exchange family informatin and pas on my father's best wishes, and she sent him a Christmas card that winter, the first time they'd had contact in years.  It is sad to part company with such loved ones, but we can cherish the may meories they have spent a lifetime giving us, and they stay in our hearts.

Joe Kissane

Chicago