Obituary of Lenore Eileen Griffith

Lenore Eileen Griffith March 28, 1950 – March 25, 2017 Lenore lived a life full of joy and compassion. She was vivacious and caring and filled with grace. She met the world daily with sparkling, interested eyes, a gentle smile, and her wise, cheerful humor. She was always interested in the lives and stories of others, ready to listen, ready to care, ready to share her loving heart wherever she was. Lenore was an adventurous, artistic, spiritual person of power and grace. When she was young she lived on a sailboat in south Florida, sailing to the Bahamas on vacations. Later she traveled the western United States in a small travel trailer, celebrating the wonders of nature and our planet. She loved the mountains and forests and rivers. She loved all animals, and always had pet family members who she regarded as “people in other suits.” She painted in watercolors, played the piano, knitted and sewed, loved to cook healthy vegan meals, and was a “Unity Church kid” and long-time student of A Course in Miracles. Her favorite ACIM principle was, “The Holy Spirit is the spirit of Joy.” Lenore was a fully realized person, wholly connected with the joy of life. She was humble and shy about praise. She lived in the moment and always found beauty and light everywhere, even in the simplest of things. She saw it walking in the forest, in the quality of light on leaves on a forest floor; she saw it riding down country roads, in the flashes of light at the far end of orchard rows; she saw it at night in the light of the stars. She saw light in the eyes and hearts of everyone she met. When asked by her oncologist if she had a bucket list, and what was the one thing she wanted to do above all others, Lenore replied she only wanted as much more of the life she had as she could get. She had no regrets, no unfinished business, and was happy and content. She only wanted to live and continue to be connected to others and to life just as she was, for as long as she could be. Lenore is survived by her husband Bob, their child Roman, and her “daughter from another mother,” Alicia Vanderlinden. She leaves behind her mother Norma, sisters Cheryl Hennecy and Diane Sickler, and many loving family members and friends, including Kay Bockman, Mary Ladish, Carolyn Anderson and Merry, Judi Hummingbird, Jan and Barry Harte, and others too numerous to mention. You know who you are. Lenore requested a simple cremation and also requested that her ashes be held until her husband joins her and her beloved Labrador Retriever Charlie, when all their ashes will be spread together in the Salmon River Valley of the Northern Oregon Cascade Mountains. In lieu of a memorial service Lenore requested that everyone who knew her simply recall what they have in their hearts and memory of her. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Joy; and Love, and Peace and Patience, and Kindness and Goodness, and Gentleness, and Grace, and Light. Lenore embodied and shared these virtues daily. She was an exquisite and amazing human being.