This site is dedicated to the memory of Rod.
Rod was born in Timken, Kansas on April 28, 1944, and died on Dec. 25, 2011, in Bohol, Philippines. He is survived by a son, Michael Gisick, of Canberra, Australia, a daughter, Kathryn Ricker, of Holden, Ma., a sister, Donita Goosen, of Ellinwood, Kan., and two grandchildren.
A memorial service took place on Saturday, Feb. 18,2012, at 2 pm, at the First Congregational Church in Amherst, MA.
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In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a scholarship fund for Jacob and Hannah, Rod's grandchildren, and sent to K. Ricker, PO Box 145, Berlin, MA 01503.
Meg
26th January 2012
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.
Extract from a poem by Henry Scott Holland
