thoughts, news, emotions

since i am here, decided to look up some
old friends ... did a quick search for
stephanie who was the woman who reminded
us all of grace slick (jefferson airplane) and
lived a hippie dream life ... she, an artist
working freelance for hallmark cards married to
him (john) a salesman for warner brother records
and they living in an "upscale" haight-ashbury
victorian with lots of persian rugs, plants, gold
records on the wall, artwork everywhere, the best
smoke in town ... they were the golden couple
of those years, taught me how to take lsd and had
tickets to every major rock'n'roll show around, most
often with backstage passes - they knew all the
best places to eat out (price+quality) and bought
their bmw with cash while most of us were still
hitchhiking .... i would ask my mom for the car
to go to the library to do homework (i was still
a senior in high school) but instead would go
across the golden gate bridge to john & stephanie's ...
they had a cat named gus furrpaws that weighed in
at 20 lbs ... she even had little framed pieces
of art hung around catbox level for gus, all feline-themed
of course .... i had searched the internet years ago
and found nothing, but today i found her ....
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Quote :

SAN FRANCISCO / Artist dies in fire at Bernal Heights home
February 07, 2007|By Jaxon Van Derbeken

A 60-year-old graphic designer and artist died in an apparent accidental fire in a home she rented on Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights, San Francisco authorities said.

Stephanie Montgomery was found dead Monday soon after firefighters put out the 5:46 p.m blaze. Her longtime friend Judy Rix said Tuesday that Montgomery had recently suffered a stroke and had a degenerative bone disease that made walking difficult.

"She was confined to one room," she said.

Montgomery came to San Francisco after working as a graphic artist for Hallmark, the greeting card company, and became immersed in the local rock music world. "Anything that was rock 'n' roll-related, she was there," Rix said.

She designed posters, T-shirts and other material for various groups in the 1970s, Rix said, and had amassed a collection of rare 45 records, many of which were destroyed in the fire.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-02-07/bay-area/17233584_1_greeting-card-bernal-heights-degenerative-bone-disease



you made a huge difference in my life, stephanie, thank you
and see you on the other side - i love you

That was an interesting story and she had an interesting life hippie. Bless her.

ahhh Hippie
at least you know and can stop looking for her here...
now you can speak directly to her whenever you want...

ahhh, mz biggz and lil otter ... my two empathic sister friends ...
it is just so strange how she had such a perfect life, in my eyes,
and i am still here in body and she is not ... feeling a bit
nostalgic is all ... and yes, i have already spoken to her

Isn't it strange how people you've only meet or known for a short while make the most lasting impressions. Yet those that you've known all your life, you can't recall a damned thing about them. Why is this?

:)

aaahhh Hippie I believe now was the right time to find out of her passing, perhaps you needed a lift or confirmation of what a 'perfect life' can entail.

Peace sister

OMG, I remember sitting on the persian rug... they'd give me a shoebox full of weed and tell me to roll joints.
I remember her drawing desk, in the round part of their victorian with the windows all around. I asked her once, how was she able to draw so well? She told me it just comes out of her head and down through her arm and out on to the paper...
One of my original inspirations for being an artist.
I guess she touched a lot of lives.
Thank you, Stephanie