In Memorium: Grace Pooler

Grace Pooler treated her three teen grandsons to a trip of a lifetime to Germany, and the four of them were members of our Globus tour last month. Grace was a very young 69 years old and her vibrant energy and personality made it hard to tell she wasn’t a peer of her three grandsons instead of their grandmother. She captured the heart of all of us on the trip and we all felt fortunate to have gotten to meet her. On the afternoon of our tenth day, she was stricken by an apparent blood clot to the heart in the parking lot of the cuckoo clock maker’s store in the Black Forest, and despite the efforts of emergency personnel and hospital staff, she passed a few days later. Grace was mom of 4, grandmother of 7, and great-grandmother of 1. According to the boys, she reveled in her job as “grandma” and doted on them all, and her death, though sudden and tragic, occurred while “spoiling the boys rotten” while enjoying Germany with them. I extend my condolences to her family and friends.