Hi,
You don't know me and I only found out about Lauren from this
post on my son's website, from Mich Elle (her facebook name)
"L'shanah Tovah! this past year has been one
filled with a lot of unexpected confusion and
devastating loss....may the upcoming year be
filled with health, happiness, and love ! RIP Gardner Marks, Lauren Marcus, and
Johnny Kessner"
Gardner Marks is my son and we lost him on 4/22 from a long
battle with Leukemia. I can only say I know what you are going
through, the devastation and the black hole of grief and loss
and wondering if Lauren is "ok". It never goes away, but it
does seem to evolve into something more tolerable, where the
thoughts of good times and love for Lauren will overpower the
loss.
You are in my our thoughts....
David and Nancy Marks
On behalf of the Marcus Family, attached please find a brief document highlighting how to donate to the "Lauren Nicole Marcus Memorial Scholarship Fund" at the St. John's University School of Law, which will pay a scholarship in Lauren's memory in perpetuity. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at
mjk375@gmail.com
Please share with all your friends and family, post on social media, and distribute to your local communities, organizations, schools, temples and churches.
Thanks again for all your help and support. With this scholarship we will carry out Lauren's loving legacy and generosity.
If you would like to donate to the scholarship fund, please carefully follow the directions under your preferred method of payment.
Check:
- Make checks payable to “St. John’s School of Law”
- Write “Lauren Marcus Scholarship Fund” in the Memo section
- Mail to Darlene Marcus (Lauren Marcus Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Grantor) at
106 Lafayette Place, Woodmere, NY 11598
Online and Credit Cards:
- Visit https://lawgiving.stjohns.edu/
- In the “Designation” section, please select “Scholarships”
- In the “Account” section please select “Lauren Marcus Memorial Scholarship Fund”
My deepest condolences. May these few words from the Holy Scriptures bring you comfort in your time of grief...
John 11:32-45
32 And so Mary, when she arrived where Jesus was and caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and became troubled; 34 and he said: “Where have YOU laid him?” They said to him: “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: “See, what affection he used to have for him!” 37 But some of them said: “Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?”
38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it.39 Jesus said: “TAKE the stone away.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: “Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days.”40 Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now Jesus raised his eyes heavenward and said: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth.” 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Laz´a·rus, come on out!” 44The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Loose him and let him go.”
45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him;
Please go to the following link for more information regarding the Hope expressed in this passage
http://www.jw.org
