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Thread #65664 Message #1085541
Posted By: YorkshireYankee
03-Jan-04 - 07:25 PM
Thread Name: Obit: For the not so famous
Subject: RE: Obit: For the not so famous
Freyda Epstein, killed May 17 2003 Talk about a tragic, senseless loss of a first-rate person -- as well as musician... she will be much missed.
From Washington Post News Services, Thursday, May 22, 2003; Page B06 Folk Singer Freyda Epstein Dies at 46
Freyda Epstein, 46, a Berkeley, Calif., folksinger who recorded and toured with the group Trapezoid in the 1980s, was killed May 17 near Madison, Va., when a vehicle hit her rental car head-on on Route 29.
A spokesman for the Greene County sheriff's department said the other driver, Richard E. Brock, 41, had earlier beaten and stabbed his girlfriend in Standardsville, Va., and may have intentionally crossed into Ms. Epstein's path. Brock was killed in the crash.