from Mr. January in Bali...

In Long Beach, Prayers for Dr. Kay

Last night in Long Beach our Cambodian family honored Dr. Kathryn Susott with prayers in English and Khmer, Christian and Buddhist, and incense and stories of love and gratitude. Some of them knew Mom since they first arrived in the USA in 1980. I came away with a deep sense of peace, and also a pocketful of cash, a Cambodian custom which helps me as I embark on the Flying Doctors mission to the orphanage and refugee camps in the Dominican Republic on the Haiti border. Aloha, daniel 7 March 2009 Dad's birthday today

Daniel Susott, his mom, Emerald Starr, Lori,

Mom wanted to give Emerald her Emerald ring. she presided over the
ceremony. Lori in the background...
Daniel Susott, his mom, Emerald Starr, Lori, 5 Oct 2008. Photo by John Furber.

Judge Tomar Mason and Kathryn Susott

Judge Tomar Mason and Kathryn Susott, MD, in their last visit in Carmel

Mom and Eli - 12/28/08

Mom and Eli - 12/28/08

Mom died sometime last night/this morning

Dear Family of Beloved Friends:

Mom died sometime last night/this morning. I am in Berkeley. I am trying to arrange for a post-mortem examination (autopsy) and will be going to Monterey now. She is in the morgue now and I am told i will be able to see her to say my last goodbyes and to offer some Buddhist and Christian prayers. She was looking forward to a visit this morning from some of the Cambodian doctors and their families, who love and respect her.

I sincerely appreciate your support in these recent difficult months and weeks, days and hours.

Page of Mom

Kathryn Susott

Our Family

Her final days were spent in gratitude for having had such a long life in which she felt so blessed. we often spoke about how lucky we were to have had each other for so many happy years, neither of us having died when we had the opportunity, she with cancer at age 60 and me in the tsunami of 2004. she was the best mother i can imagine, and always told me how proud she was of me trying to help people, as she had showed me by example. she was the personification of Kindness, an inspiration to all who knew and loved her.

I hope Mom's now with Dad and her brothers and parents and all those who have passed on before, and knowing that she will always be in our hearts as a loving Angel,

with sadness and fond aloha, Daniel

15 February, 2009
Berkeley

Aya and Moe Ijuma visiting from Japan!

Our families have been friends since 1947... Aya's grandmother ran the hot-spring inn where my parents honeymooned during the "occupation" of Japan following WW2. She lived to the age of 103! Aya and Moe, now 6, have visited 3 times now to help ake care of Mom through her failing health...
Amigos para siempre!

Happy times, Eli and Popo

Popo and Eli have a special relationship. Get used to it. Eli's got the
blood, he's got the name, get over it

Kay and Daniel, Mother and Son

The way we were
Thanks to Dr. Erick for scanning, thanks to Chanthoeun for web-mastering!

Mom, 88, and her "Latin Lovers"

Mom, 88, and
her "Latin Lovers" Dr. Erick Sosa and his nephew, Jonathan Mendoza-Sosa, 21.
Any wonder she is looking and acting years younger!
"Soy Feliz!" indeed!

Bethany Yarrow and fans!

Daniel and his Mom, Dr. Kathryn Susott, with Bethany Yarrow and HER Mom in
Berkeley for the launch of the US tour of "Bethany and Rufus"! September 11, 2007
Also present: baby Valentina, Tia Esperanza, And Jonathan Mendozo-Sosa.
Bethany is the daughter of Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary, now a star
in her own right!

Mom looking good in my wig!

Today mom got into my wig while I was working in the clinic, and it knocked a few years off her...

Home to the USA after Europe

Home to the USA after Europe!

A welcome-home dinner at the lovely home of Chanthoeun and Leap,
with Mom and Dr. Erick Sosa having picked me up from the airport! aloha

2007-07-03

A Brief Visit to Carmel

Mom and Eli, and Lauryn in for a brief visit to Carmel after the funeral of her father. Her parole officer finally let her travel..