Newlin's Story: 1987

While he applied for academic jobs, Joel worked in a bank in New York City. By Fall 1987 he returned to the Ohio State University to supervise the teaching assistants in the Linguistics department.

Joel in Manhattan, Spring 1987

Joel with coworker's daughter at Citibank

Joel with Citibank coworkers

Joel with coworkers

Joel returned to Florida in the summer of 1987, bought a car (Mazda 323) and drove out West to attend a linguistics conference at Stanford Univerity. He and some OSU classmates drove over to the Pacific Ocean:

Joel with OSU classmate Riitta Välimaa-Blum

Joel and Riitta picnic off the trunk of his car

Allan got married in August to Cathie Coe. They were living in El Cerrito and married at Rockefeller Lodge in San Pablo.

Cathie with pet rabbit Ray Charles, El Cerrito, Summer 1987

Cathie's rented house in El Cerrito

Bridegroom Allan, August 1987

mother of the groom Newlin and bridegroom Allan

Andrew cracks a joke with Joe, Cathie, Allan, and Eric

newlyweds Allan and Cathie with Joel and with Allan's friends

Newlin with nephews and niece: Larry's wife, Larry, Kathy, and Walter (Arnie's brother Leonard's three children)

Before and after the wedding Nevis family members toured the area. Newlin's sister Floreine and her daughter-in-law Suzanne came out for the wedding from Florida, and Arnie's sister Laura came up from Los Angeles.

Suzanne, Eric, Laura, Joel, Floreine, and Andrew at the Cliff House (with Seal Rocks in background)

Newlin in a redwood tree, Muir Woods National Monument

Eric with a strangler fig, Muir Woods National Monument

Suzanne, Newlin and Andrew, Muir Woods National Monument

Newlin enjoying Muir Woods National Monument

Eric hamming it up near Mount Tamalpais

Andrew and Eric on a trail down Mount Tamalpais

Newlin, Allan and Eloise at Mount Tamalpais East Peak

Allan and Cathie came to Florida with Cathie's daughters Nikki (Nathalie) and Denise to spend Christmas with the Nevises.

Christmas tree in Newlin's living room, 1987

Scandinavian Christmas decorations on Newlin's dining room table

Stockings by the fireplace

Allan and Cathie open Christmas presents

Newlin opening a Christmas present with Nikki and Andrew

Denise in St. Augustine

Eric shows his romantic side

Between Christmas and New Year's Newlin arranged a reception at Wakulla Springs Lodge for our Ashmore relatives to meet Allan's new family: Cathie, Nikki and Denise.

Allan in a suit for the reception

Cathie and Allan on the left, Sheryl and Newlin in the middle, and Mary Alice on the right

cousins Linda and Joel

Wakulla Springs Lodge

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Arnold and Newlin: postscript 1986

Arnie and Newlin, 1952

Arnie and Newlin, circa 1980

There is no transition after death. Newlin and the family's lives changed dramatically after July 4, 1986. Newlin became a widow and went into mourning for a year or more, avoiding social functions for the most part. Her sister Eloise visited frequently during that year and made sure Newlin was never alone during holidays. Andrew and Eric lived at home and continued their studies, while Joel left Florida at the end of the summer for a conference in Europe and then lived in New York City for a year while looking for a job in Academia. Allan came to Florida for the funeral and returned to northern California to resume his life there. 

Newlin worked as an Alachua County school nurse several more years before retiring and working as a traveling nurse for the Florida State Children's Medical Services and she volunteered in Florida's Guardian ad Litem program.

In the early 1990s, Newlin had their son Eddie disinterred from Forest Lawn in Glendale and re-interred in the Tallahassee Memory Gardens in the family plots there. (This was done largely because Arnie's sister Laura had cancer so moving Eddie from Bill and Hazel's four plots in Glendale made room for Laura next to her sister and parents when she died in 1992. But it was also part of a long term plan for moving Eddie when Arnie and Newlin found a "final resting" place. Eddie's casket had been put in a vault so it could be disinterred more easily. Newlin was not able to be present for the reinterment so her sisters Eloise and Floreine had to do the grim job of verifying the body in the casket before it could be placed in the ground.) 

Of the four plots in Tallahassee with Arnie and Eddie flanking an empty one reserved for Newlin, the fourth was promised to Joel since as a gay man he had no prospects for marriage in 1986 and had no plans to have or adopt children, so he was expected to die alone.

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Arnold and Newlin: Denmark, April 1970

We drove down to Denmark at the start of April to visit Helsingør and Copenhagen. We would regularly take the ferry from Helsingborg, Sweden, across the Øresund (Öresund as we called it in Swedish) to Helsingør, Denmark. In Helsingør we enjoyed touring the Kronborg Castle, which we did several times. On this visit we coped with the wet snow. Helsingør, by the way, has been identified as the Elsinore of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

a house from 1628 in Helsingør, Denmark

Helsingør

Andrew in Helsingør

Laura, Andrew, Eric, and Newlin on the streets of Helsingør

Laura, Allan, Joel, and Eric in Helsingør

Allan at Kronborg Castle

Andrew, Laura, Newlin, and Allan, Kronborg Castle

Andrew and Newlin, Kronborg Castle

Newlin and Laura, Kronborg Castle

Joel and Laura, Kronborg Castle

Laura and Newlin, Kronborg Castle

Newlin, Andrew, Eric, Joel, Laura, and Allan, Kronborg Castle

Laura and Newlin, Kronborg Castle

Joel, Eric, Andrew, and Allan, Kronborg Castle

Laura, Eric, Joel, Allan, Andrew, and Newlin, Kronborg Castle

Laura and Joel, Kronborg Castle

From Helsingør we continue to Copenhagen to see the changing of the guard at Amalienborg Palace and stroll along the Langelinie Promenade of Central Copenhagen. 

Newlin at Amalienborg, Palace, Copenhagen

Newlin, Eric, Laura, Joel, Allan, and Andrew, Amalienborg Palace

Changing of the guards, Amalienborg Palace

Eric imitating the photographer, Amalienborg Palace

Eric in the snow near Amalienborg Palace

Andrew and Newlin, Amalienborg

Eric in mid leap at Amalienborg

Eric and Andrew with guard at Amalienborg

Amalienborg Palace guards

Changing of the guard, Amalienborg Palace

On the Langelinie Promenade we enjoyed Copenhagen Harbor and saw the the Denmark Expedition Memorial, which commemorates the the Denmark Expedition to map the northeast coast of Greenland in 1907 and the loss of Danish explorers Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Niels Peter Høeg Hagen and Jørgen Brønlund.

Newlin, Andrew and Eric at the 1907 Denmark Expedition Memorial

Also on Langelinie is the Little Mermaid (den lille Havfrue) by Edvard Eriksen, depicting a mermaid becoming human, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

The Little Mermaid

Arnie with the Little Mermaid

Andrew with the Little Mermaid

Andrew and the Little Mermaid

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