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Lenda Bates DuBose
July 21, 1943 - December 6, 2011

Like me, Mom was a night owl. True to her nature, she finally took flight at three minutes to midnight on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. My sister was with her. I was just arriving back at the hospital to take over the night shift, pulling int the parking lot when my sister called. It was as peaceful and easy an end as there could have been: Mom had been pausing between breaths, deeply asleep. She just took one last breath and then didn't take another.

The memorial service is scheduled for Monday afternoon, December 12, at 4:30 at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN. The service will be followed by a reception that will include a small show of her work.

In lieu of flowers, my family is asking for donations in Lenda DuBose's name to either Heifer International, or to The Friends of Warner Parks, 50 Vaughn Road, Nashville, TN 37221-3706, to benefit the Nature Center.