Gil Ediger has passed

[William R. Elliott]

Dear friends

Frank Binney told us on Facebook that Gil Ediger passed away. 

So sad to know this. I have no details, so please share what you can. 

Bill Elliott

Georgetown 

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William R. (Bill) Elliott

30105 Briarcrest Court

Georgetown, Texas 78628

speod...@gmail.com

573-291-5093 cell

[Jocelyn Hooper]

Thank you for reminding me to post here Bill.  This is the edited version of an email I sent our "Caver Lady" lunch group.

I just wanted ya'll to know that Gill died ~1:30 Sunday morning.

He has had a long slow decline over the past 5+ years, the last three in Memory Care.  More recently he had a bad bout of aspiration pneumonia, which was better, but not gone, and he had stopped being able to swallow even water, so no swallowing antibiotic pills/even crushed..  Mentally, he had become less and less interactive, either with just looking at you, or even acknowledging you, and that had become minimal even with his favorite caregivers at the Auberge. Cathy Winfrey and I were faced with the decision of either placing him in Hospice, or have him go through hospitalization for IV antibiotics...only to return to the same situation of aspirating again and repeat.  He was adamant that he "did not want to be kept alive just to be alive"...and definitely no feeding tubes of other such means of keeping him alive.  Cathy and I agreed that was not the end Gill would want, and she set up Hospice care.

A few old friends stopped by to see him Saturday, though he was non-responsive.  Yaz Avila stayed the night with him, and contacted Cathy when he died.  Cathy and Peter Sprouse are handling the rest.  Hospice, and their Chaplain, handled his transfer to the funeral home.

He has a lot of old friends to hang out with in "Caver Heaven".  

Jocie

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[William R. Elliott]

Thanks very much Jocie. I'm sort of isolated over here.  

Bill

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