Myriam
On Monday October 3rd, Aurovilian Myriam Janssen-Brettman, found her way to the light and left her body in her home in Frankfurt, Germany, due to pancreatic cancer. She had been warmly surrounded by her son Geo, daughter Lilian, and other family and friends during the last days, weeks and months.
Myriam, who was an art therapist, joined Auroville in the early nineties and left in 2006. Aurovilians remember her for her bright and always upbeat bearing with which she worked in the AV Health Centre and taught in Transition School. She will most of all be remembered for the energy she put into Repos, making it a clean and pleasant place, providing first-aid to fishermen and villagers, and seeing to it that lady swimmers would adhere to the Indian dress code. During the first two months of 2011, Myriam came to Auroville for a last visit.
Thanking her for the kind and joyous presence she shared with us, our love and sympathy go out to daughter Lilian and specifically to Geo, who is presently still in Germany, but may return soon to Auroville, his home.
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