Missing Quilts
Please help locate these two very special missing quilts!
I received this note from a fellow member of the Dallas Quilt Guild:
"Alzheimers, Missing Pieces" was a personal catharsis for me because of anger I had when my mother-in-law was diagnosed as having Alzheimers Disease. It depicts the slow disappearance of memories until finally there is no one left. The quilt is machine pieced and hand quilted.
"The Memory Quilt" is composed of 60 squares. Each square is done by family members of the Alzheimers patient. These squares depict many personal memories of families. Some squares have personal materials of the A.D. patient incorporated as a part of each square. It is a quilt top with no batting or backing.
The quilts have been missing since they were taken from the North Park Mall office, in Dallas, by a young lady who represented herself as being from the Alzheimers Association. The disappearance occured between Thanksgiving and the first week in December [1997].
Thank you for your help. I feel if anything brings these quilts back, it will be due to the help of my friends,
- Sincerely,
- Irene Turneabe
"Alzheimers, Missing Pieces" 16.5 inches by 22 inches -- machine pieced, hand quilted. Six orange print 8-pointed stars on yellow with grey sashing and a black and white print border. Pieces of the stars are "missing" from each sucessive block.
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"The Memory Quilt" 36 inches by 68 inches -- quilt top only. Sixty 6 inch blocks arranged 6 by 10, with a top and bottom border. Top border is also a hanging sleeve. Each block has a center panel of muslin which is written or drawn on in remembrance of Alzheimers patients.
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Any information about these quilts should be forwarded to:
- 1. Jo Ann Hoffman
- Dallas Police Department
- (214) 670-7236
- 2. Alzheimers Association
- (214) 827-0062
Sept. 30, 02
I thought you might want to know...Irene, my mother, died June 24, 2002.
Her quilt "Alzheimers, Missing Pieces" has not been returned, yet.
But on a good note..her last quilt, "Everlasting" made it into Houston with the help of her '911' Quilt friends. Mona Kornman and Mae Luigs and the rest of 911 finished "Everlasting" about an hour before she left us.
Elizabeth D Widmer
