{"id":7319,"date":"2013-01-21T22:08:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2013-01-21T22:08:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:08:55","slug":"sad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/sad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read in the paper this morning that one of the Icelandic women I got to know in California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hekla.sigmundsdottir\">Hekla Sigmundsd\u00f3ttir<\/a>, passed away last week. \u00a0I knew that she had been sick for a long time, but little did I know that she&#8217;d been fighting cancer for 20 years. \u00a0She was a private person, and did not ever discuss her illness with us.<\/p>\n<p>She moved back to Iceland some years before we did, after <a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tantoday.com\/forums\/uv-light-benefits\/23948-vitamin-d-dermis-sunlight-may-needed-prime-t-cells-function-skin.html\">a successful<\/a> stint as <a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/butcherlab.stanford.edu\/\">a postdoc fellow<\/a> at <a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/profiles\/Eugene_Butcher\/\">the Stanford University School of Medicine<\/a>. \u00a0Sadly, she never had the health to continue on in our little ex-Californian&#8217;s sewing club, so I lost contact with her, but her&#8217;s was a unique voice and she will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>She was an excellent scientist, and in 2008\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.is\/frettir\/taekni\/2008\/01\/03\/ein_staersta_styrkupphaed_sem_um_getur\/\">landed one of the biggest individual grants ever for an Icelander<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure her departure leaves a large gap at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/hekla-sigmundsdottir\/8\/3b0\/794\">the research lab she worked in at the Landsp\u00edtali University Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(And, morbidly, one must wonder just how long those Facebook and LinkedIn links will remain active&#8230; \ud83d\ude41 )<\/p>\n<p>Here are pictures of Hekla I found on our website, from sewing clubs (saum\u00f3) and BBQs of years past:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/dagbok\/fh2004b\/id697.htm\">S\u00f3lveigar-saum\u00f3 apr\u00edl 2005<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/dagbok\/fh2004b\/id734.htm\">Lottu-saum\u00f3 j\u00fal\u00ed 2005<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/dagbok\/fh2004b\/id748.htm\">Hrefnu-saum\u00f3 \u00e1g\u00fast 2005<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/dagbok\/fh2004b\/id766.htm\">\u00c1sd\u00edsar-saum\u00f3 sept 2005<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrefna.com\/dagbok\/fh2006\/id822.htm\">\u00cdslendinga-BBQ feb 2006<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/dagbok\/fh2006\/id903.htm\">\u00cdslendinga-BBQ sept 2006<\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/dagbok\/fh2007\/id1004.htm\">Hrefnu-saum\u00f3 j\u00fan\u00ed 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We send our deepest condolences to all her family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read in the paper this morning that one of the Icelandic women I got to know in California, Hekla Sigmundsd\u00f3ttir, passed away last week. \u00a0I knew that she had been sick for a long time, but little did I know that she&#8217;d been fighting cancer for 20 years. \u00a0She was a private person, and<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/sad-news\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7321,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}