In your Honor, I have been helping others as YOU helped me. I was not there at the end but, you are here in my heart today and forever. I talk about you all the time and tell the story of this wonderful woman who was kind and always smiling. YOU showed me how to live life and laugh during the hard times. You were my inspiration and my guide and I did paid attention......And i was so excited to share it with you then. YOU, because of you, I am the woman that I am today... Independent and self sufficent. Thank you Audrey from the bottom of my heart. Today, I am working in sharing your vision and I am empowering little girls in being self sufficent as you wanted me to be. LOVE YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KIND HEART..........Love always, Martha.

My precious time with Audrey (who sometimes answered to the name "Snookie")was way back in the early days of our lives, the mid 1950s.  We were friends who enjoyed talking with each other.  After school I would go to her house at 33 Linden Street in Bangor.  We would sit on a park bench across from her house and talk about school and perhaps music and life in general.  Audrey and her close friend Ruth Singer introduced me to "pizza and Pepsi,"  a kindness that I have always cherished.  Those were very enjoyable days with Audrey.  I am deeply saddened to read of her family's loss.

David Wentworth
Norfolk, Virginia 

There are not words that express our the loss we feel of our dear friend Audrey.  We loved to come to Shel and Audrey's for good food, good freinds and good times.  We miss you and wish that we had closer contact in the last couple of years, but since our move to Northern California it was difficult.  We hoped that the paintings that hung in the house would remind Audrey of our friendship and love. Shel's night class was the most popular that we ever had because the other students knew that Audrey was coming by with a sweet treat. We think that that sums up Audrey as well, "a sweet treat". 

We love you Audrey


Kirk and Terri    

If you ever were fortunate enough to thumb through Audrey's endless recipes cards you would have noticed that most of them had some personal connection to someone in Audrey's life. Most of the cards have a name written on them. Andrew"s favorite cookies, Teri Kosakura's Chinese chicken salad etc. These are connections of love and friendship that Audrey would make every time she stepped into the kitchen to cook.

Mom's first venture into catering was in 1974. She would make lunches for bridge parties. Sometimes I would go to these events to help her cook and serve. I was 9yrs.

On one of these occasions,  dessert was cream puffs. Not your ordinary cream puffs that you can pop several in your mouth at once (at least I can). These cream puffs were the size of baseballs and filled with vanilla ice cream instead of the usual custard. I remember scoping the ice cream and take the plates out from the kitchen to the old ladies playing bridge to ohh and ahhhs. 

Not sure who mom thought she was feeding these giant cream puffs too. Non of the ladies could finish them. That was mom, always much more food than was necessery. I will always remember those cream puffs and how mom tought me to cook.

Until 2008, Audrey was terrified of dogs... ALL DOGS.

Shortly after returning from Denver that fall with Forrest and Mr Kane... mom duked it out with her 8th brain tumor.

She had been home from the hospital about 2 days when we came to visit and help dad with catering. The two boys climbed up on the couch and stood sentry over her for several days... never leaving her side.

As mom came too... she held their paws for support and found she slept better in their presence.

When she was up and moving around again, If I didnt hear it once I heard it a million times: When are you bringing the guys over?" Our resident therapist "Forrest" became her favorite and they spent many an hour snuggling on the couch and spooning in front of the lakers games and america's got talent. She would line up the three dogs in the kitchen and hand feed them all sorts of treats: chopped liver, roasted chicken, roasted bones, etc

The regret: we were 1500 miles away and unable to give that comfort and support that only D O G can do in her finale'.

Audrey was met in the after life by THE GREATEST Dane "Obi" and Rolo the German Shepherd, Sebastian the Mastiff, Zeus the Shepherd Mix, Lexi and Justice and their ring leader Lisa Cassavant and they all walked offed into the sunset for bacon cheese burgers.

I know she is up there doing the "pack leader" thing like I taught her... pain and worry free. The dogs are keeping her safe and company in fine style.

Way to Go Mom!!!

My fondest memory of Audrey was about a week before she passed. She reached out for my hand to come sit next to her. Even though she couldnt speak what she was feeling, her smile said it all. I gave her a hug and kiss and said "hi mom" and we just sat there holding hands. I felt a special bond between us that day. One that will stay in my heart forever. I miss her very much but she lives on in my Steven, his brothers Andrew and David and of course in her wonderful husband Sheldon. I see a piece of her in each one of them. I know she is smiling down on us all as she makes her wonderful desserts in heavens kitchen.

I love you MOM

Sherri

This is a sweet little video from a day celebrating Grammy's birthday at Disneyland in 2007.