Contributions to the tribute of Carl L. Rapp Jr.

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Megan Rapp uploaded photo(s)

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Miss you and love you Dad. Hope you’re catching up on lost time and taking part in all of your favorite pastimes. This was our last “real” visit in March. I think you were resting up for your upcoming adventures! ❤️

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Rebecca Vann posted a condolence

Thursday, April 9, 2020

I am so sorry Barb. I have thought of you so often in the past years and wondered how you were doing in your journey with Carl's dementia. It is such a difficult time. So many uncertainties and decisions. Ups and downs. So many emotions. May God bless your days ahead as you adjust to the new life ahead of you. Thank you for taking such good care of Carl. May peace be with you. Rebecca Vann (SEA RES)

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Jim and Lori Johnson posted a condolence

Thursday, April 9, 2020

We meet Carl and Barb by pure chance in the waiting room of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, in Dec. 2018. In a short time, we started up a conversation with them and soon were discussing the reasons we were there and discovered that Carl and my wife Lori had the same uncommon form of dementia. Lori was soon called for her appt. so emails were exchanged and off we went. We have seen neither Carl nor Barb since, but have corresponded back and forth with words of advice and encouragement that only another caregiver of this horrible disease could relate to. The following sums up our friendship with Carl and Barb. Sometimes we need someone To simply be there....not to fix anything or do Anything in particular, but Just to let us feel we are Supported and cared about. They say that all things happen for a reason, I now know the reason for that chance meeting back in Rochester.... Thank you Barb and God Bless Carl. Your very dear friends, Jim and Lori Johnson, Necedah WI

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Diane Tomevi lit a candle

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Barb, I am so sorry to hear of Carl's passing. He was quite the character. Thank you for sharing your journey together. It was very helpful as I was dealing with my father's memory care issues. Carl, you fought the battle as a true warrior and now you are at peace, hopefully finding another great adventure in the great beyond. Diane Tomevi

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Barbara Rapp lit a candle

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

"AN ODE TO BARBARA PART III" CARL seemed to sense an urgency to write this last ode while we were in Washington State. I remember we took a trip to downtown Seattle to find this shop that would engrave this for me. This was presented to me December 08, 2007 for our anniversary. BEFORE WAS OUR BEGINNING AND THEN OUR MIDDLE NOW BEGINS THE LATTER YET PRIOR TO THIS LIFES END. AHEAD STILL REMAINS THE BEST OF OUR DAYS YET TO BE DISCOVERED AND LOVINGLY LIVED BUT TIMES PRIOR TO OUR ETERNITY WITH HIM. IN OUR TIME WE HAVE LOVED AND BEEN LOVED ALWAYS PROTECTED EVEN ON THAT PROMISED DAY OF OUR LORD THERE WE WILL RECOGNIZE AND MEET AGAIN TO BEGIN THE WHOLE OF ETERNITY TOGETHER WITH HIM SHARING A NEW BEGINNING WITH NEVER ANOTHER MIDDLE OR END. FOR NOW THE LONE WOLF STILL HOWLS TO THE MOON, AND THE WIND CONTINUES TO MOAN AND BLOW FREE WE ARE TOGETHER EVEN IF NOW LIVING APART AWAITING TODAY'S PROMISE OF LIFE'S DAYS AHEAD. THANK YOU CARL FOR LOVING ME TO THE END......BARB KNOW THAT YOU WERE, YOU ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE WOMAN I LOVE AND WITH WHOM I WILL SHARE ETERNITY.

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Barbara Rapp posted a condolence

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

"AN ODE TO BARBARA PART II" This is the part II that Carl had written to me and again etched in crystal and presented to me July 2, 1992 I GUESS I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ALONE MOSTLY BY CHOICE AS I WAS TAUGHT EARLY THAT PEOPLE BRING PAIN. DISTANCE BECAME MY NATURAL WAY, AS CLOSENESS REQUIRED A TRUST THAT COULD NOT JUSTIFY THE VULNERABILITY, EASIER TO FIND COMFORT WITH THINGS THAT ARE ALWAYS THERE AND ASK FOR NOTHING IN RETURN. YOU WERE THE BEGINNING, MELTING THE ICE THAT ENSHROUDED MY HEART, BUT FOUND THAT OLD INSTINCTS ARE NOT SO EASILY LEFT BEHIND. YOUR PRESENCE WITHIN ME HAS BROUGHT CONFUSING CHANGES. WHAT I AM AND WANT TO BE IS TOO OFTEN NOT WHAT I BECOME. BUT STILL I AM GROWING AND HAVE LEARNED THAT IS IS YOUR PRESENCE IN MY LIFE THAT FULFILLS ME AND MAKES ME HAPPY. I WISH THAT I COULD SHOW LOVE AS EASILY AS I CAN SPEAK OF IT, BUT YOUR WAY IS NOT MINE. I FEEL THROUGH PICTURES AND WORDS, LABORIOUSLY SOUGHT AND CONSTRUCTED WITH AN EFFORT NOT FOUND IN SOME OF MY DEEDS. I WISH I HAD A WAY TO LET YOU KNOW THAT MY LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL AND EXISTS FOR YOU AS YOU ARE, NOT AS YOU THINK YOU SHOULD BE. THROUGH SOMETIMES HIDDEN FROM VIEW, THE FOUNDATION WE FORMED YEARS AGO CONTINUES TO GROW AND FLOURISH WITHIN ME. I HAVE LEARNED THAT TRUST DOES NOT ALWAYS BRING PAIN, AND THAT FEARS ORIGINATING FROM VULNERABILITY, ARE SIMPLY A HEALTHY RECOGNITION OF YOUR PLACE IN MY EXISTENCE AND BEING.

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Barbara Rapp posted a condolence

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

"AN ODE TO BARBARA" written by Carl (Skip) as friends knew him and presented to me BARBARA on Valentine's Day 2/14/90. This is the first of a series of three which he had etched in crystal for me. BEFORE THE BEGINNING, TIME ONLY EXISTED WINTER WINDS BLEW ACROSS A FROZEN CANADIAN LANDSCAPE, LEAVING SWIRLS OF SNOW DANCING WHERE THE LAKE WANTED TO RUN FREE. ARCTIC STORMS MOANED THROUGH NAKED STANDS OF JACK PINE, AND THE WOLF'S HOWL BROUGHT A HAUNTING REMINDER OF THE DESOLATION AND LONELINESS THAT SURROUNDED THE SPIRT AND ENDURED BY THOSE THAT ARE COMMITTED TO WAIT BELIEVING IN THE HOPE THAT SUMMER WILL COME AGAIN AND NOT TO BE FOOLED BY AN EARLY SPRING. TOO VITAL ARE REMEMBRANCES OF WAVES LAPPING THE SHORE AND GENTLE SUMMER BREEZES CARESSING THE SENSES WITH THE FRAGRANCE OF RENEWED LIFE. OH GOD WHEN WOULD MY PENANCE END. WITH THE BEGINNING, YOU BECAME THE WARMTH OF SUMMER SHINING UPON MY EXISTENCE. YOU MELTED THE ICE THAT ENSHROUDED MY HEART. AND THE INTERTWINING OF OUR SPIRITS. DEPENDENT NOT UPON EACH OTHER, BUT UPON A UNION BLESSED BY GOD FROM WHICH WE DRAW LIFE AS ONE. BY THE SUNSET YEARS BEFORE GOLDEN POND, AS THE LOON CALLS AT NIGHT FOR IT LIFELONG MATE, THERE WILL BE TIME FOR REMEMBRANCES AND HUGS BETWEEN LOVERS. LIKE THE TIDE, WE WERE TO INDEPENDENT PEOPLE RETURNING DAILY TO THE SOURCE FROM WHICH WE DREW OUR STRENGTH, A ONENESS FOUNDED UPON PATIENCE, COMMITMENT, TRUST AND LOVE THAT GUIDED UP PAST OBSTACLES AND DEEPENED WITH EACH NEW CHALLENGE. AS WE HAVE ALWAYS WALKED TOGETHER, SO SHALL ALWAYS BE TOGETHER AT THE LAST CANADIAN SUNSET. THERE WILL BE NO FEAR ONLY THE KNOWLEDGE THAT GOD'S PROMISE WILL NOT BE BROKEN, AND THAT THERE IS NO ENDING, ONLY NEW BEGINNINGS.

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Mike Calhoun uploaded photo(s)

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Megan and Barb, I’m so glad I had a chance to meet Carl. I am thankful that we got him out in the pontoon last summer. I think he really enjoyed the boat ride and the ice cream sundae we had at Charlie’s! Barb, he sure lucked out finding you. You did such an amazing job of caring for and loving him.

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The family of Carl L. Rapp Jr. uploaded a photo

Monday, April 6, 2020

Carl L. Rapp Jr.

1946 - 2020

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Carl L. Rapp Jr.

1946 - 2020

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