I remember frantically calling to say my SIL was not a victim of mass mall shooting

[Omaha Steve]

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Our SIL worked 1/4 mile away. But the business name was the same as the mall. I knew when friends and relatives would hear on the news mass shooting at Westroads Mall, they would be wondering if he was hurt or worse. Family communication in 2007 was nothing like today.

I called mom first. She was 83 at the time.

The victim in this attached article (1/2 way down) Beverly Flynn was the sister to a friend of Marta and I in school. Her father was killed and mother severly injured in an unrelated home invasion.

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Through it all, the queen bee of gift wrappers has kept coming back to Von Maur at Westroads Mall

By Matthew Hansen Updated 17 hrs ago

I hand Olympia the package and she measures it with her eyes, studying it intently, like an insurance adjuster sizes up a smashed-up car or an artist stares at her sculpture.
Olympia does not ask what’s inside, because she does not care. She asks a more important question, in her thick Greek accent that has stuck around through six decades in Omaha.
“What kind of wrapping paper you want?”

It is nearing 2 p.m. on another Christmas week workday inside Von Maur’s gift-wrapping department at Westroads Mall. Olympia Axiotes, who is 83 years old, has been here for five hours already. She has not yet sat down.

FULL story: http://www.omaha.com/columnists/hansen/hansen-through-it-all-the-queen-bee-of-gift-wrappers/article_2a0dc6b3-26e4-5fa8-a824-13cdc23560cd.html

[iluvtennis]

1. Love this story...thanks for sharing nt