MARCEL, z'l: Garden of Joy, Barlow Hospital

Garden of Joy, Barlow Hospital

Attached is this letter within underlined link which just came from Barlow Respiratory Hospital along with four garden photos, and extra one of me, and my friend, AriellaShira Lewis (married to Michael L), planting bulbs in the earth creating in a few spaces, a garden of joy. I am so pleased to just receive this during the season of Marcel's 2nd yahrzeit.

I feel that my tears can water the garden. In synagogue both tonight and tomorrow, I am holding a special memorial for Marcel.

We remember our loved ones ...and we plant for our children...

And just in time for Tu B'Shvat, Jewish planting holiday.

BlesSings of health and joy,

Joy

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[2] File: January 2 Progress Report.pdf

This formal botanical plaque, standing in the garden filled with hundreds of purple bearded irises (which Joy and her friend AriellaShira planted) at the main front door of Barlow Respiratory Hospital, where Marcel z'l led doctor meetings when he was president of the LA Lung Association, doctor's society, and where patients sit outside, reads:

TO THE STAFF OF

BARLOW RESPIRATORY HOSPITAL

PURPLE BEARDED IRIS

DONATED BY JOY KRAUTHAMMER

IN JOYOUS MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND

MARCEL KRAUTHAMMER

October 2007

Garden of Joy

Dr. Marcel Krauthammer, a pulmonologist and a renowned professor of medicine at UCLA, passed away in January, 2006. His wife, Joy, planted lovely purple bearded irises at the Barlow main hospital in his memory. The bulbs became a wonderful improvement to the hospital grounds, and have since multiplied, and return year after year in spectacular bloom. The Garden of Joy, as it’s been affectionately named by the staff, blooms beautifully, even in the cold of winter. It brings smiles to the staff and warms the heart and brings hope to our patients and their families.