I’m sorry to report that active, enthusiastic LTHer, Gale Adams (aka tarte tatin), passed away last month. She was 70 years old.
Gale truly enjoyed good food, and getting together with other LTHers. Despite her limited mobility, and a number of other health problems, she always made the effort to be there and break bread with her LTH friends, joking and in good spirits. She was a mainstay of the long-running (10+ years) Evanston Lunch Group™.
I first met Gale at the long-gone, little-missed Cajun Charlie’s. I was there with Gwiv and Cathy2 to plan a 2006 Mardi Gras event for LTH.
http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6981It was a remarkable event. Remarkable, primarily, because it may have been the most disappointing LTH event ever. The kitchen was very slow at delivering food, and what was delivered was, shall we say, at best, edible. Apparently, the restaurant was having significant financial difficulties.
viewtopic.php?t=7373But Gale was there at an adjacent table during that planing meeting, She overheard and independently confirmed all the glorious promises the chef made to us for the evening.
Gale lived alone, in a large house in South Evanston, where she raised her family. In late February, after missing a few LTH events and not responding to texts and voice messages from EvA and me, I asked the City of Evanston to do a well-being check on her, March 2nd. They found her body, victim of a heart attack.
Her obituary is here, although it’s incorrect as to the date of death. It lists March 2 as the date of death; that was the date of the well-being check and the date her family was notified. Her last visit to LTHForum.com was February 22, so her heart attack was probably some time between February 22 and the first event she missed, February 26.
Visitation will be held Saturday, March 25, at 9:15 a.m.; Mass at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 1775 Grove St., Glenview. Interment at All Saints Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Cradle Foundation at 847-475-5800 or
http://www.cradle.org/.