The Mueller-Harder Family

Clara showed up in the FCC database today — as KB1POW! Her first contact was with Timothy (KB1NBR) on 70cm. Yea, Clara!

Clara’s school picture.

After many hours of study — both on her own and with each of the other family members, — Clara passed her FCC Amateur Radio exam for a Technician’s license. We’re all so proud of her!

Special thanks are due to local Volunteer Examiners in the area, Fred Messer WA1LIE, Jo Messer KB1EPT, Carla Straight KB1MFQ, and Ken Blair KB1GPQ for their flexibility and encouragement.

Now we just wait for Clara’s new call sign to show up in the FCC ULS database.

WINTHROP, MASSACHUSETTS — Janneke Rachel Disbrow of Winthrop, Mass., passed away peacefully on Friday, October 12, 2007 at the Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association after a brief illness. “Janny” was the loving aunt of Erik Disbrow Mueller-Harder of Cabot, Vt., and Christian Asbury Harder of Norwood, Mass., and their families. She was predeceased by her sister Karen Disbrow Harder in 2004.

Born in Tampa, Fla., in 1933 as Jan Disbrow, Janneke was the daughter of William Cook Disbrow and Jean Cooper Disbrow. She moved from Florida with her family to Newton in 1948 and then to Wellesley in 1950, where she graduated from high school in 1951. Janneke graduated from Bates College in 1955, afterwards working as a translator for the Christian Science Publishing Society. In 1975, Janneke joined the newly forming Downer & Company in Boston, beginning a close professional relationship that would last for more than 30 years.

She loved languages, math, music, art, and nature, and she fostered these interests in her nephews and their children, who dearly miss her.

A memorial service will be held at the Martha-Mary Chapel at Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, 72 Wayside Inn Rd., Sudbury, Mass., on November 30, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. Relatives and friends are kindly invited.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Janneke’s memory may be sent to:

Arrangements are by J.S. Waterman & Sons & Waring Funeral Home, 592 Washington St., Wellesley, MA 02482.