Janet Millenson funeral information

[Gemma Radko]

Hello all -

So sorry to have to pass this along.

Janet Millenson, a former president of MOS, a wonderful birder and an even more wonderful person, died yesterday after a long illness.

Her funeral is tomorrow (Sunday, April 21) at 1:00 at the Garden of Remembrance in Clarksburg, Maryland.

Her family (husband Herb, son David, and daughter-in-law Sai) will be sitting shiva and greeting friends tomorrow at 7:30 at her home, 10500 Falls Road, Potomac, MD.

A great loss to our birding community.

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[Gail B. Mackiernan]

Such a sad loss -- Janet was such a wonderful person and worked very hard for MOS and MBC. She was compiler of the Sugarloaf CBC for years as well.

Will miss her terribly...

Gail Mackiernan

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[Anna Urciolo]

The service will also be live-streamed. Information about this is on gardenofremembrance.org

Anna Urciolo

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[Marcia Watson]

Gemma,

Thank you for sharing the news. Janet was witty, kind, and a staunch advocate for many causes. About once a year we used to have a long phone free-wheeling conversation about sundry things. I will miss her.

Marcia
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Marcia Watson
Phoenix, MD

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[Francesca Grifo]

A huge loss! I first met her as an election judge. She was the roamer - the person you call if you have technical difficulties. She was awesome! Years later we realized we were both birders and I worked with her on the CBC. I am so sad. Her family must be devastated.

Francesca

Francesca T. Grifo

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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

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On Apr 20, 2024, at 8:36 PM, Anna Urciolo <anna.u...@gmail.com> wrote:

The service will also be live-streamed. Information about this is on gardenofremembrance.org

Anna Urciolo

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On Apr 20, 2024, at 8:13 PM, 'Gemma Radko' via Maryland & DC Birding <mdbi...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hello all -

So sorry to have to pass this along.

Janet Millenson, a former president of MOS, a wonderful birder and an even more wonderful person, died yesterday after a long illness.

Her funeral is tomorrow (Sunday, April 21) at 1:00 at the Garden of Remembrance in Clarksburg, Maryland.

Her family (husband Herb, son David, and daughter-in-law Sai) will be sitting shiva and greeting friends tomorrow at 7:30 at her home, 10500 Falls Road, Potomac, MD.

A great loss to our birding community.

Sent from my iPad

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[Phil Davis]

MD Birders:

Sorry I am late with this ...

This is so sad.

Among many memories, Janet was a student of the history ornithology.
Many years ago I remember attending a presentation by her on the
history of ornithology at the Anne Arundel Bird Club. She started out
with Pliny the Elder and went from there. I loved it!

My wife and I also remember sharing her sadness when her long-time
pet African Gray Parrot, Pascal, passed away a number of years ago.
She was very close to him.

Janet also served as the MOS Publications Committee Chair and the
organization is indebted to her for first loading all of the Maryland
Birdlife issues, from 1945 to 2000, onto a CD-ROM that was
distributed to the members to provide digital access to the journal's archives.

We will very much miss Janet.

Phil

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Phil Davis, Secretary
MD/DC Records Committee
2549 Vale Court
Davidsonville, Maryland 21035 USA
web: https://mdbirds.org/records-committee/
email: pda...@ix.netcom.com
phone: 301-261-0184
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[JAMES SPEICHER]

Janet was a long time participant in the C&O mid-Winter count.  I asked her once about the way she always ended her MD Birding posts with

and learned that it was a phrase that her pet parrot came out with but the exact details of how the phrase was learned is in her message to me somewhere on the Group archives and wasn't quickly found.  Maybe someone knows.

I was also curious about the "twocrows" in her e-address.  Maybe someone knows the story behind that.  One theory is that it relates to the nursery rhyme about Magpies repurposed for America:

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told

Jim Speicher

[JAMES SPEICHER]

Here's the text of the image that looks like it's not gonna appear...

Janet Millenson
Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)
ja...@twocrows.com
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"Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot (R.I.P.)

[Marcia Watson]

Two Crows Consulting is the name of the data mining business owned by Janet and her husband Herb. Their website says: “The company name is derived from Norse mythology: Norse legend said that Odin, king of the gods, had as advisors two crows (some say ravens) — Hugin and Munin. Every day, these intelligent birds would fly out into the world and report back to Odin on what was taking place. Today, Two Crows Consulting helps organizations understand and act on complex information from many sources.”

Janet was a steadfast friend and I’m going to miss her terribly.

Marcia 

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Marcia Watson

Phoenix, MD 

On Apr 24, 2024, at 12:46 AM, JAMES SPEICHER <jugor...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[lisawil...@gmail.com]

Janet was smart, funny, and kind. I am really going to miss her.  Janet led me to the Montgomery Bird Club.  In addition to birds, she was passionate about democracy and conservation. Our last communication just a few months ago was about stream restoration. At the same time she sent around a hilarious blogpost on ridiculous (real) bird feeder ads showing parrots and cardinals at the same feeder. What a loss.