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Date Posted: 11/4/2009 5:08:14 pm EST
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To Mourn And To Honor

Author: Margaret Regan Source: Tucson Weekly

Title: TO MOURN AND TO HONOR
On a recent dark night, under the half-light of a waxing moon, gusty winds swept through Tucson.
At the Splinter Brothers and Sisters Warehouse studios, just east of the railroad tracks, a chain-link fence rattled in the breeze. Every once in a while, a train whistle wailed.
The weather had shifted, with October's balmy Indian summer suddenly giving way to a wintry chill. Ghostly November was coming. And a band of brave souls, wrapped up in sweaters and scarves, were outside creating homages to the dead.
Carol Bender was leaning over a giant puppet head of her late husband, David Rowe, dead since 2003. His papier-mâché likeness lay on the ground at her feet, his white hair curling onto his forehead over his big blue eyes.
"It doesn't really look like him," she said with a smile. But it was close enough. "He had curly, dark blonde hair and very blue eyes."
Carol was making a David mask to wear in the All Souls Procession, occurring this Sunday, Nov. 8.
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